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herr

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1. herr - Noun

2. Herr - Proper noun

Meaning

A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions. Angela Merkel

The Herr Doctor does not know about peoples. William Golding

He's German so he's Herr Ball. Herr Ball. His movies are so bad, cats choke when they hear his name. Craig Ferguson

You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream. Garrett Fort

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side. Norman Davies

In the meanwhile I retire to my well-earned bath-chair, from which I shall watch with a fatherly eye the philosophic gambols of my younger friends as they dance to the highly syncopated pipings of Herr Wittgenstein's flute. C. D. Broad

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