master
English
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Pronunciation
- (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
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 mag- (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”).
Alternative forms
- mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
- mastre (obsolete)
- Master
- Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)
Noun
master (plural masters)
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- master of a hundred thousand drachms
- (Can we date this quote by Jowett and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) (Thucyd.)
- 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, page 83, lines 415–420:
- 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an 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.
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- 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
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- great masters of ridicule
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- 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.
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- Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants.
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- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- She has a master in psychology.
- 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.
- (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.
- a master wheel
- a master database
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Synonyms
- (master's degree): masters, master's
- (master's degree): magistrate (Quebec English)
- (film): establishing shot, long shot
- (ship): skipper, captain
- See also Thesaurus:skilled person
Hyponyms
- mistress (feminine-specific form)
Derived terms
terms derived from master
- 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
- Sranan Tongo: masra
Related terms
- mistress (feminine form of "master")
Translations
someone who has control over something or someone
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owner of an animal or slave
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captain of a merchant ship
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head of a household
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someone who employs others
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expert at something
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tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices
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schoolmaster — see schoolmaster
skilled artist
courtesy title of a man
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courtesy title for a boy
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master's degree
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person holding a master's degree
original of a document or of a recording
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film: primary wide shot of a scene
legal: parajudicial officer
engineering: device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source
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freemasonry: person holding an office of authority
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person holding a similar office in other civic societies
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See also
Adjective
master (not comparable)
- Masterful.
- a master performance
- Main, principal or predominant.
- Highly skilled.
- master batsman
- Original.
- master copy
Translations
main, principal or predominant
highly skilled
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original
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Verb
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.
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- 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.'
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- (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.
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- (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
Terms derived from the noun "master"
Translations
to be a master
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to control
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to learn to a high degree
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to make a master copy of
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Etymology 2
Noun
master (plural masters)
Translations
vessel having specified number of masts
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Anagrams
- 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas
Finnish
Noun
master
Declension
| Inflection of master (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| abessive | masteritta | mastereitta | ||
| instructive | — | masterein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation
Noun
master m (plural masters)
- master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
- master (golf tournament)
- master, master copy
Further reading
- “master”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
master m or f
- indefinite plural of mast
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
master f
- indefinite plural of mast
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Noun
māster m
Inflection
| Declension of māster (masculine a-stem) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | māster | māsterar, māstera |
| genitive | māsteres | māstera |
| dative | māstere | māsterum, māsterem |
| accusative | māster | māsterar, māstera |
See also
Swedish
Noun
master
Anagrams
West Frisian
Etymology
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Noun
master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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