formal address
Proper spoken greeting
Formal address is a mode of speaking or writing to someone that observes conventional markers of respect, distance, or hierarchy.
This includes titles like Mr., Dr., or Your Honor, and in languages with the distinction, formal pronouns like French *vous* or German *Sie*.
The term also refers to a ceremonial speech: The president delivered a formal address to the joint session of Congress.
- honorificsRespectful name additions
- Your HonorJudicial title of respect
- salutationsFormal words of welcome
- to whom it may concernFormal greeting, unknown addressee
- Mrs.Married woman's honorific
etiquette · black tie · title · business communication · protocol · rank · vocative · peerage · legal language · official capacity · elderhood · mademoiselle · ladies and gentlemen · diplomacy · nobility · old money · sir · rhetoric
- etiquettemanners, politeness, etiquette, table manners, courtesy
- greetingshi, hello, hey, hola, aloha
- royal ceremoniescoronation ceremony, crowning, royal procession, state banquet, royal ball
- social customshandshake, greeting, politeness, etiquette, manners
- titlesMr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., Miss
- workplace etiquetteemail etiquette, punctuality, handshakes, greetings, introductions
formal addresshey
Informal greeting or summons
buddy · street language · mate · dude · pal
formal addressfirst name
Personal name, not surname
nickname · pet name · term of endearment · diminutive · shortened name
formal addresscasual greeting