# Sr

Pronunciation: US say "SEEN-yur" /ˈsinjɚ/; UK say "SEEN-yuh" /ˈsiːnjə/

## Adjective

1. Abbreviation of senior; a title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name. — Abbreviation of senior; A title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name.
   - Simple: Abbreviation of senior. Use it after a father's name when his son has the same name.
   - _Robert Whitfield Sr handed the family firm over to his son last spring._
   - _The lawyer asked whether the will named George Ashworth Sr or his son._

## Noun

Pronunciation: US say "SIS-tur" /ˈsɪstɚ/; UK say "SIS-tuh" /ˈsɪstə/

2. Abbreviation of sister; a title for a nun. — Abbreviation of sister; A title for a nun.
   - Simple: Abbreviation of sister. Use it before a nun's name.
   - _Sr Agnes has run the convent's kitchen for nearly twenty years._
   - _Patients at the mission hospital were greeted each morning by Sr Catherine._

## Symbol

3. The symbol used in chemistry for the element strontium.
   - Simple: The letters used in science to stand for strontium.
   - _The bone sample contained more Sr than the researchers expected._
   - _Geologists compared Sr ratios in the rocks to trace where the groundwater came from._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Abbreviation of surveyor, adopted by The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors as a title for its Corporate Members.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sr (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).