master's degree

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Noun

master's degree (plural master's degrees)

1. A postgraduate degree which aims to assist students in developing a mastery for a particular academic field or profession.

Synonyms

• master, masters, master's, Master, Masters; magistrate (Quebec); masteral (Philippines)

Related terms

• magister
• master's thesis

Translations

postgraduate degree

• Armenian: մագիստրոսի աստիճան (magistrosi astičan)
• Burmese: မဟာဘွဲ့ (ma.habhwai.)
• Catalan: màster (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碩士／硕士 (zh) (shuòshì), 碩士學位／硕士学位 (zh) (shuòshì xuéwèi)

• Danish: kandidat c, kandidatgrad c
• Dutch: master (nl) m
• Esperanto: magistro
• Finnish: maisterintutkinto
• French: master (fr) m, maîtrise (fr) f
• Galician: mestrado m, máster m
• Georgian: მაგისტრის ხარისხი (magisṭris xarisxi)
• German: Master (de) m, Masterabschluss m
• Greek: μεταπτυχιακό (el) n (metaptychiakó)
• Hebrew: מוסמך אוניברסיטה (he) m (musmákh univérsita), תואר שני (he) m (to'ár shení)
• Hungarian: mesterdiploma, mesterfokozat
• Icelandic: meistaragráða f
• Indonesian: magister (id), master (id)
• Italian: magistrale (it) f
• Khmer: អនុបណ្ឌិត (a’nu bɑndɨt), បរិញ្ញាទោ (pa’rəɲɲaa tou)
• Korean: 석사 (ko) (seoksa)
• Malay: ijazah sarjana, siswazah, ijazah Master
• Persian: کارشناسی ارشد (kâršenâsi-ye aršad)
• Polish: magister (pl) m, magisterium (pl) n, magisterka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mestrado (pt) m
• Romanian: masterat n
• Russian: сте́пень маги́стра f (stépenʹ magístra)
• Spanish: maestría (es) f, máster m
• Swahili: shahada ya uzamili
• Thai: ปริญญาโท (bpàrinyaa toh)
• Tibetan: གཙུག་ལག་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར (gtsug lag rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer)
• Ukrainian: сту́пінь магі́стра m (stúpinʹ mahístra)
• Welsh: meistr (cy) m, gradd meistr m