Definitions for Master

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Master mas·ter

Spelling: [mas-ter, mah-ster]

IPA: /ˈmæs tər, ˈmɑ stər/

Master is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in Master (aemrst).

Definitions for Master

noun

1. a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
2. an owner of a slave, animal, etc.
3. an employer of workers or servants.
4. the male head of a household.
5. a person eminently skilled in something, as an occupation, art, or science:
6. a person whose teachings others accept or follow:
7. Chiefly British. a male teacher or schoolmaster.
8. a worker qualified to teach apprentices and to carry on a trade independently.
9. a title given to a bridge or chess player who has won or placed in a certain number of officially recognized tournaments.
10. a person holding this title.
11. Also called master mariner. a person who commands a merchant ship; captain.
12. a victor or conqueror.
13. a presiding officer.
14. an officer of the court to whom some or all of the issues in a case may be referred for the purpose of taking testimony and making a report to the court.
15. the Master, Jesus Christ.
16. a person who has been awarded a master's degree.
17. a boy or young man (used chiefly as a term of address).
18. Also called matrix. an original document, drawing, manuscript, etc., from which copies are made.
19. a device for controlling another device operating in a similar way. Compare slave (def 5).
20. Recording. matrix (def 14). a tape or disk from which duplicates may be made.
21. Also called copy negative. Photography. a film, usually a negative, used primarily for making large quantities of prints.
22. master of foxhounds.
23. Archaic. a work of art produced by a master.
24. a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.

adjective

1. being master; exercising mastery; dominant.
2. chief or principal:
3. directing or controlling:
4. of or relating to a master from which copies are made:
5. dominating or predominant:
6. being a master of some occupation, art, etc.; eminently skilled:
7. being a master carrying on one's trade independently, rather than a worker employed by another:
8. characteristic of a master; showing mastery.

verb (used with object)

1. to make oneself master of; become an adept in:
2. to conquer or overcome:
3. to rule or direct as master:
4. Recording. to produce a master tape, disk, or record of:

Origin of Master

before 900; Middle English maistre, maister, Old English magister Latin; akin to magnus great

Examples for Master

So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.

If a servant complained of being abused, his master had no power to retain him.

Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?

His long habit of thought concerning her enabled him to master this foolishness.

But he was a man and his own master—if you can rightly call a man his own master that does them things.

Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.

At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.

Yet their biggest star, a master practitioner of the sport, could face prison time for much less onerous financial crimes.

If it please you, lady, my master bids me say he desires your presence.

But Beyoncé has been nothing if not a master of seizing her own crisis management.