Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Polite address 🛡️ Knights' title
sers

sers

9.9
A polite way to address a group of men in Scottish speech
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : señores
  • You might still hear sers used in some Scottish villages when addressing a group of men.

Examples

  • The innkeeper greeted the travelers with a cheerful 'Good evening, sers!'

  • In the old tavern, the locals would call out to the newcomers as sers.

  • Good evening, sers!

  • The sers gathered at the tavern to discuss the news.

  • The innkeeper greeted the travelers with a cheerful 'Good evening, sers!'

  • In the old tavern, the locals would call out to the newcomers as sers.

  • You might still hear sers used in some Scottish villages when addressing a group of men.

Synonyms

messieurs
vssers
  • Formal
8.7

A polite way to address two or more men

is Scottish and informal used to address a group of men politely

Surface Forms

sers plural

Morphology

sers = sir (transparent) = ser + s

Regular plural formation; the word is a dialectal/informal plural corresponding to 'sir' and uses the familiar English plural -s.

Etymology

Sers is a Scottish or informal plural of sir, a 'polite title' for a man. A helpful way to remember it is to think of saying several sirs quickly so the sound becomes sers, which is why people use it to address a group of men politely.