master

master

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English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːs.tə/
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /ˈmas.tə/, (influenced by RP) /ˈmɑːs.tə/
  • (Scotland, Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈmas.təɹ/
  • (General American) enPR: măsʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈmæs.tɚ/
  • (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈmɑs.tə/ (see marster)
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈmaːs.tə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: mas‧ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

Alternative forms

  • maistre (archaic)
  • Marse, marse (obsolete, dialectal, US, Caribbean)
  • mas'r (dated, pronunciation spelling, representing southern US black English)
  • Master
  • mastre, maister, mayster (obsolete)
  • Massa, massa, massah, massy, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (pronunciation spellings)
  • measter (obsolete, UK, pronunciation spelling)
  • mester, mister (dialectal)

Noun

master (plural masters)

  1. Someone who has control over something or someone.
  2. The owner of an animal or slave.
  3. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
    Synonyms: skipper, captain
  4. (dated) A male head of a household.
  5. Someone who employs others.
  7. An expert at something.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:master.
  8. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
  9. (dated) A male schoolteacher.
  11. A skilled artist.
  12. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
  13. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
    Synonyms: masters, master's, (Quebec) magistrate
  14. A person holding such a degree.
  15. The original of a document or of a recording.
  16. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
    Synonyms: establishing shot, long shot
  17. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
  18. (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
    Synonyms: coordinator, primary
    Antonyms: secondary, slave, worker
  19. (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
  20. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
  21. Short for master key.
  22. (BDSM) A male dominant.
    Coordinate term: mistress
Hyponyms
  • mistress (feminine-specific form)
Derived terms

English terms starting with “master”

Related terms
  • mistress (feminine form of "master")
Descendants
Translations
See also
  • journeyman
  • apprentice

Adjective

master (not comparable)

  1. Masterful.
  2. Main, principal or predominant.
  3. Highly skilled.
  4. Original.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)

  1. (intransitive) To be a master.
  2. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
  3. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
  5. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
  6. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From mast +‎ -er.

Noun

master (plural masters)

  1. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
Derived terms
  • four-master
Translations

Anagrams

  • Stamer, ramset, metras, matres, mastre, maters, armets, armest, termas, tamers, trémas, remast, Tamers, Stream, ramets, 'maters, stream, METARs, tremas, Amster

Finnish

Etymology

From English master.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑster/, [ˈmɑ̝s̠te̞r]
  • Rhymes: -ɑster
  • Hyphenation(key): mas‧ter

Noun

master

  1. (BDSM) (male) dom

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maestro, borrowed from Italian, magister, borrowed from Latin, and maître, inherited from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas.tɛʁ/, /mas.tœʁ/

Noun

master m (plural masters)

  1. master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
  2. master (golf tournament)
  3. master, master copy

Further reading

  • “master”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • trames, trémas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch master. Doublet of maestro, magister, and mester.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈmastər/ [ˈmas.t̪ər]
  • Rhymes: -astər
  • Syllabification: mas‧ter

Noun

mastêr (plural master-master or para master)

  1. master (someone who has control over something or someone)
    Synonym: tuan
  2. master (an expert at something)
    Synonym: ahli
  3. master (the original of a document or of a recording)
  4. (education) master (a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree)
    Synonyms: magister, sarjana utama

Verb

mastêr (active memaster, passive dimaster)

  1. to master (to learn to a high degree)
  2. to master (to make a master copy of)

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

  • “master” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

master m or f

  1. 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)

  1. a master's degree
  2. a master's thesis
  3. a person that has a master's degree
  4. original document or recording

Etymology 2

Noun

master f (definite singular mastra or mastri, indefinite plural mastrer, definite plural mastrene)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of mast

Etymology 3

Noun

master f

  1. indefinite plural of mast

References

  • “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

  • mēster
  • māstere, mēstere

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæġester and Old Saxon mēstar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːster/

Noun

māster m

  1. master
  2. leader
  3. commissioner

Inflection

Derived terms

  • Māster

Descendants

  • Saterland Frisian: Mäster
  • West Frisian: master

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English master. Doublet of măiestru, maestru, maistru, magistru, and meșter.

Noun

master m (plural mastere)

  1. master's degree

Declension

Swedish

Noun

master

  1. indefinite plural of mast

Anagrams

  • smarte, smetar

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • mastır

Etymology

Borrowed from English master, from Old English mæġester, from Latin magister, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s. Doublet of maestro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmas.tɯɾ/
  • Hyphenation: mas‧ter

Noun

master (definite accusative masterı, plural masterlar)

  1. master's degree
    Synonym: yüksek lisans

Further reading

  • “master”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “master”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “master”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)

  1. master

Derived terms

  • boargemaster

Further reading

  • “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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