form of address

Questions about form of address

What does form of address mean?

form of address means "an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General'".

What is another word for form of address?

Close synonyms include title, title of respect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is form of address a common word?

form of address is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.