master
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːstə/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /ˈmastə/
- (General American) enPR: măsʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈmæstɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: mas‧ter
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro and magister.
Alternative forms[edit]
- mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
- mastre (obsolete)
- Master
- Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)
Noun[edit]
master (plural masters, feminine mistress)
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- We are masters of the sea.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 415–420, page 83:
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
- 1712 November 24, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, November 13, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 535; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697, page 97:
- When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […] .
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, pages 58–59:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (dated) The head of a household.
- Someone who employs others.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- An expert at something.
- Mark Twain was a master of fiction.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person
- 1843 July, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. VII—The Life of Joseph Addison. By Lucy Aikin.”, in The Edinburgh Review, number CLVII, page 231:
- But that which chiefly distinguishes Addison from Swift, from Voltaire, from almost all the other great masters of ridicule, is the grace, the nobleness, the moral purity, which we find even in his merriment.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§189”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
- No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (dated) A schoolmaster.
- A skilled artist.
- (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- Where there are little Maſters and Miſſes in a Houſe, they are uſually great Impediments to the Diverſions of the Servants;
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- She has a master in psychology.
- Synonyms: masters, master's, magistrate (Quebec English)
- A person holding such a degree.
- He is a master of marine biology.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- The band couldn't find the master, so they re-recorded their tracks.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- Synonyms: establishing shot, long shot
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- The case was tried by a master, who concluded that the plaintiffs were the equitable owners of the property. […]
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Hyponyms[edit]
- mistress (feminine-specific form)
Derived terms[edit]
- ballet master
- barmaster
- beemaster
- bergmaster
- boroughmaster
- brewmaster
- burghomaster
- burgomaster
- bushmaster
- chess master
- cockmaster
- concertmaster
- craftsmaster
- dancing master's kit
- dockmaster
- drill master/drillmaster
- dungeon master
- games master/games-master
- Grand Master/grandmaster
- harbor master/harbor-master/harbormaster
- headmaster
- house master/housemaster
- ironmaster
- jack of all trades, master of none
- jumpmaster
- loadmaster
- lockmaster
- master bedroom
- master bricklayer
- master builder
- master card
- master cast
- master class
- master copy
- master cylinder
- master file
- master gland
- master key
- master mariner
- master mason
- Master of Arts
- master of ceremonies
- Master of Science
- master plan/master-plan/masterplan
- master race
- master sergeant
- master status
- master tradesman
- master trust
- master-at-arms
- masterdom
- masterfast
- masterful
- masterhood
- masterless
- masterly
- mastermind
- masterous
- masterpiece
- Masters
- mastership
- mastersinger
- masterstroke
- masterwork
- mastery
- metal master
- mint-master
- old master
- past master
- paymaster
- postmaster
- property master
- puppet master/puppet-master/puppetmaster
- quartermaster
- question master/question-master/questionmaster
- quizmaster
- rattlesnake master
- ringmaster
- roaming master
- saymaster
- schoolmaster
- scoutmaster
- shedmaster
- sheepmaster
- shipmaster
- spymaster
- stationmaster
- taskmaster
- toastmaster
- trackmaster
- trainmaster
- undermaster
- watermaster
- webmaster
- weighmaster
- whoremaster
- workmaster
- wreck master/wreck-master/wreckmaster
- yardmaster
Descendants[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- mistress (feminine form of "master")
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
Adjective[edit]
master (not comparable)
- Masterful.
- a master performance
- Main, principal or predominant.
- Highly skilled.
- master batsman
- Original.
- master copy
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- 1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
- Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.
- (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 183, column 2:
- […] the wealth / That the world maſters.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- He mastered in English at the state college.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
master (plural masters)
Translations[edit]
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Anagrams[edit]
- 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas
Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
master
Declension[edit]
Inflection of master (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | master | masterit | |
genitive | masterin | masterien mastereiden mastereitten | |
partitive | masteria | mastereita mastereja | |
illative | masteriin | mastereihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | master | masterit | |
accusative | nom. | master | masterit |
gen. | masterin | ||
genitive | masterin | masterien mastereiden mastereitten | |
partitive | masteria | mastereita mastereja | |
inessive | masterissa | mastereissa | |
elative | masterista | mastereista | |
illative | masteriin | mastereihin | |
adessive | masterilla | mastereilla | |
ablative | masterilta | mastereilta | |
allative | masterille | mastereille | |
essive | masterina | mastereina | |
translative | masteriksi | mastereiksi | |
instructive | — | masterein | |
abessive | masteritta | mastereitta | |
comitative | — | mastereineen |
Possessive forms of master (type paperi) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | masterini | masterimme |
2nd person | masterisi | masterinne |
3rd person | masterinsa |
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
master m (plural masters)
- master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
- master (golf tournament)
- master, master copy
Further reading[edit]
- “master” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch master, from English master, from Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Doublet of magister and mester.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
master (plural master-master, first-person possessive masterku, second-person possessive mastermu, third-person possessive masternya)
Affixed terms[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “master” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
master m or f
- indefinite plural of mast
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From English master. Doublet of magister.
Noun[edit]
master m (definite singular masteren, indefinite plural masterar, definite plural masterane)
- a master's degree
- a master's thesis
- a person that has a master's degree
- original document or recording
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
master f (definite singular mastra or mastri, indefinite plural mastrer, definite plural mastrene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mast
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
master f
- indefinite plural of mast
References[edit]
- “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæġester and Old Saxon mēstar.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
māster m
Inflection[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
master
- indefinite plural of mast
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West Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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