A title of rank or respect prefixed to a personal name or designation. Prefixed to a man's surname or first name. Originally used only in…

An honourable title = Master, Sir. applied to distinguished men, knights, scholars, poets, deities, etc.; its modern affected application to…

Appended to the name of a man to show that he has the rank of a gentleman. Cf. gent, n.2 2. Obsolete.

Sir, master; = Dan, n.1

With possessive adjective: a title of respect given to a master. Frequently in your good mastership(s) (as a formal style of address in…

A title of courtesy prefixed to the surname or first name of a man without a higher, honorific, or professional title.

With possessive adjective: a title of respect given to a master. Also as a form of address. Cf. mastership, n. 4.

As a form of address: master.

As a title accompanying a man's name. Originally applied to those who were ‘esquires’ in sense 2… Following the surname preceded by the Christian…

= mastership, n. 4. Obsolete.

Employed as a title and prefixed to the surname of a country gentleman, frequently forming part of his customary appellation. Now chiefly colloquial.

With possessive adjective, as in your gentlemanship: a respectful title or form of address for a gentleman. Now historical and rare.

Prefixed to a man's surname: = mister, n.2 1a, master, n.1 19a.