mester

See also: Mester and meșter

English

Noun

mester (plural mesters)

1. Obsolete form of mister (employment, trade)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mester in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Emerts, S meter, Tesmer, merest, meters, metres, restem, termes

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, mēster, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister.

Noun

mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)

1. master
2. champion
3. guru

Inflection

Declension of mester

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mester	mesteren	mestre	mestrene
genitive	mesters	mesterens	mestres	mestrenes

Synonyms

• (master craftsman): håndværksmester c, læremester c
• (champion): champion c
• (guru): guru c, læremester c

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Italian méster, from mastro (“master”), from Latin magister (“teacher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛʃtɛr]

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• Hyphenation: mes‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

mester (plural mesterek)

1. master

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mester	mesterek
accusative	mestert	mestereket
dative	mesternek	mestereknek
instrumental	mesterrel	mesterekkel
causal-final	mesterért	mesterekért
translative	mesterré	mesterekké
terminative	mesterig	mesterekig
essive-formal	mesterként	mesterekként
essive-modal	mesterül	mesterekül
inessive	mesterben	mesterekben
superessive	mesteren	mestereken
adessive	mesternél	mestereknél
illative	mesterbe	mesterekbe
sublative	mesterre	mesterekre
allative	mesterhez	mesterekhez
elative	mesterből	mesterekből
delative	mesterről	mesterekről
ablative	mestertől	mesterektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	mesteré	mestereké
non-attributive possessive - plural	mesteréi	mesterekéi

Possessive forms of mester
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mesterem	mestereim
2nd person sing.	mestered	mestereid
3rd person sing.	mestere	mesterei
1st person plural	mesterünk	mestereink
2nd person plural	mesteretek	mestereitek
3rd person plural	mesterük	mestereik

Derived terms

• mesteri
• mesterkedik
• mesterség

 

Compound words

• karmester
• mesterlövész
• mestermű
• őrmester
• polgármester
• sakkmester
• strázsamester
• szertartásmester
• tanítómester

 

Expressions

• gyakorlat teszi a mestert

 

Further reading

• mester in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse meistari

Noun

mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)

1. a champion
2. a master

   herre og mester - lord and master

Derived terms

Terms derived from mester

• borgermester
• glassmester
• lydmester

• læremester
• mesterlig
• mesterskap

• norgesmester
• vaktmester
• verdensmester

Related terms

• mestre (verb)

See also

• meister (Nynorsk)

References

• “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.

Verb

mester

1. must
2. to need
3. to have to

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Portuguese

Adjective

mester (plural mester, comparable)

1. Alternative form of mister

Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. Alternative form of mister