English
Etymology
master piece calque of (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Dutch meesterstuk
Pronunciation
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Noun
masterpiece (plural masterpieces
A piece of work that has been given much critical praise , especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.
1911 , Saki , The Chronicles of Clovis
The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece .
A work of outstanding creativity , skill or workmanship .
Masterpieces are not completed, they are abandoned.
A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild .
Synonyms
Translations
piece of work that has been given much critical praise
Arabic: تُحْفَة f ( tuḥfa ) , رَائِعَة f ( rāʔiʕa )
Gulf Arabic: تحفة f ( tuḥfa )
Armenian: գլուխգործոց (hy) ( gluxgorcocʻ )
Basque: maisulan
Belarusian: шэдэ́ўр m ( šedéŭr )
Bulgarian: шедьо́вър (bg) m ( šedjóvǎr )
Catalan: obra mestra f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傑作 ／ 杰作 (zh) ( jiézuò ) , 杰作 (zh) ( jiézuò ) , 名作 (zh) ( míngzuò )
Czech: mistrovské dílo n majstrštyk (cs) m ( colloquial )
Danish: mesterværk n
Dutch: meesterwerk (nl) n
Esperanto: majstroverko ĉefverko
Finnish: mestariteos (fi)
French: chef-d’œuvre (fr) m
Galician: obra mestra f
German: Meisterstück (de) n Meisterwerk (de) n
Greek: αριστούργημα (el) n ( aristoúrgima )
Hebrew: יְצִירַת מוֹפֵת f ( yetsirát mofét )
Hungarian: remekmű (hu)
Icelandic: meistaraverk n
Ido: maestroverko (io)
Indonesian: mahakarya (id)
Italian: capolavoro (it) m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: 傑作 (ja) ( けっさく, kessaku ) , 名作 ( めいさく, meisaku )
Korean: 걸작 (ko) ( geoljag ) (傑作 (ko) )
Latin: magnum opus palmārium n
Manx: ard-obbyr f
Maori: mounga
Norwegian: mesterverk n mesterstykke n
Persian: شاهکار (fa) ( šâh-kâr ) , شاهاثر ( šâh-asar )
Polish: arcydzieło (pl) n
Portuguese: obra prima f
Romanian: capodoperă (ro) f
Russian: шеде́вр (ru) m ( šedévr )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ремек-дело n
Roman: remek-delo n
Spanish: obra maestra f
Swedish: mästerverk (sv) n
Tagalog: likhang-guro akdang-guro
Tajik: шоҳкорr ( šohkorr ) , шоҳасар ( šohasar )
Turkish: şaheser (tr)
Ukrainian: шеде́вр m ( šedévr )
Vietnamese: kiệt tác (vi) (傑作
Welsh: campwaith m gorchestwaith m
Yiddish: מײַסטערווערק n ( maysterverk )
