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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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timelord
English
Etymology
time +? lord. From "Time Lord", the term for a member of a specific race of time travellers from the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.
Noun
timelord (plural timelords)
- A person who has mastered time travel.
Anagrams
- old timer, old-timer, oldtimer
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