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master
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA(key): /?m??st?/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?mast?/
- (General American) enPR: m?s?t?r, IPA(key): /?mæst?/
- Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
- Hyphenation: mas?ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (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
- mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
- mastre (obsolete)
- Master
- Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)
Noun
master (plural masters, feminine mistress)
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- We are masters of the sea.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- Synonyms: skipper, captain
- (dated) The head of a household.
- Someone who employs others.
- An expert at something.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person
- 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 Ma?ters and Mi??es in a Hou?e, they are u?ually great Impediments to the Diver?ions of the Servants;
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- Synonyms: masters, master's, (Quebec English) magistrate
- A person holding such a degree.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (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.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- Synonym: primary
- Antonyms: secondary, slave
- (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
- mistress (feminine-specific form)
Derived terms
Pages starting with “master”.
Descendants
Related terms
- mistress (feminine form of "master")
Translations
See also
- journeyman
- apprentice
Adjective
master (not comparable)
- Masterful.
- Main, principal or predominant.
- Highly skilled.
- Original.
Translations
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.
- 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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
mast +? -er
Noun
master (plural masters)
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
Translations
Anagrams
- 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas
Finnish
Noun
master
- (BDSM) (male) dom
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mas.t??/
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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- trames, trémas
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch master, from English master, from Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Doublet of magister and mester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mast??r]
- Hyphenation: mas?têr
Noun
master (plural master-master, first-person possessive masterku, second-person possessive mastermu, third-person possessive masternya)
- master:
- someone who has control over something or someone.
- an expert at something.
- the original of a document or of a recording.
- (education) a master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- Synonym: magister
Affixed terms
Compounds
Further reading
- “master” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
master m or f
- indefinite plural of mast
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From English master. Doublet of magister.
Noun
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
Noun
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
Noun
master f
- indefinite plural of mast
References
- “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- m?ster
- m?stere, m?stere
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæ?ester and Old Saxon m?star.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?ster/
Noun
m?ster m
- master
- leader
- commissioner
Inflection
Descendants
- Saterland Frisian: Mäster
- West Frisian: master
Derived terms
- M?ster
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
Swedish
Noun
master
- indefinite plural of mast
Anagrams
- smarte, smetar
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)
- master
Derived terms
- boargemaster
Further reading
- “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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muster
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin m?nstr?re (“to show”), from monere (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?s.t?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(?)
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Gathering.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- 1920, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 13,
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual […] .
- 1743, Richard Steele & Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
- (chiefly military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. [from 15th c.]
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 4 Jul 1663:
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen […]
- 2010, Ohtar, "Enthroned", Slechtvalk, A Forlorn Throne.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc. [from 19th c.]
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. [from 14th c.]
- Showing.
- (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [15th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display. [15th-17th c.]
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, Act 2:
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
- 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
- A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists). [from 15th c.]
Derived terms
- pass muster
- bangtail muster
Translations
Verb
muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past and past participle mustered)
- (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit. [15th-17th c.]
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. [from 15th c.]
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service). [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
Synonyms
- (gather, unite, especially troops): rally
Derived terms
- muster in
- muster out
- muster up
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
muster (plural musters)
- Synonym of mustee
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
- The next, the Quadroon, from the white and mulatto woman. The third descent, from a white and quadroon, is called a muster; from the fourth, between a white and a muster, springs the musteephinas and the fifth descent, viz. from a white and musteephina, is white by law, and of free birth; indeed the two latter classes are as white as a European.
- 1925, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Elmer Anderson Carter, Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, page 291:
- Mixed bloods, they are suspended between two races, — mulattoes, quadroons, musters, mustafinas, cabres, griffies, zambis, quatravis, tresalvis, coyotes, saltatras, albarassados, cambusos, — neither white nor black, but Negroes.
- 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 4:
References
- muster in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- muster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Sumter, estrum, mustre, muters, stumer, turmes
German
Pronunciation
Verb
muster
- singular imperative of mustern
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Muster.
Noun
muster m
- design, pattern
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