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Master   /mˈæstər/   Listen
Master

noun
1.
An artist of consummate skill.  Synonym: maestro.  "One of the old masters"
2.
A person who has general authority over others.  Synonyms: lord, overlord.
3.
A combatant who is able to defeat rivals.  Synonyms: superior, victor.
4.
Directs the work of others.
5.
Presiding officer of a school.  Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster.
6.
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.  Synonyms: master copy, original.
7.
An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship.  Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper.
8.
Someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution.
9.
An authority qualified to teach apprentices.  Synonym: professional.
10.
Key that secures entrance everywhere.  Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey.
verb
(past & past part. mastered; pres. part. mastering)
1.
Be or become completely proficient or skilled in.  Synonym: get the hang.
2.
Get on top of; deal with successfully.  Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount.
3.
Have dominance or the power to defeat over.  Synonym: dominate.  "The methods can master the problems"
4.
Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.  Synonym: control.
adjective
1.
Most important element.  Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal.  "The main doors were of solid glass" , "The principal rivers of America" , "The principal example" , "Policemen were primary targets" , "The master bedroom" , "A master switch"



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"Master" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not a warrior of any kind. Ambitious Louis and the vainglorious Kaiser were only second-rate soldiers, who would never have won their own way to the highest command. But Napoleon was utterly different. He was as great a master of the art of war on land as Nelson was by sea; and that is one reason why Nelson, who caused his downfall, stands supreme. But there are other reasons too. Nelson, like Drake, fought three campaigns with marvellous ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood
... troubles. The afternoon I landed in that little village nearest to the camp, I had made up my mind to get to camp that same day. When I found I couldn't get any kind of conveyance to take me there, I decided to walk. The station master warned me that a big storm was coming, but I thought I could make the trip before it came. The sky didn't look ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... businesses to complete Eritrea's development agenda. Erratic rainfall and the delayed demobilization of agriculturalists from the military kept cereal production well below normal, holding down growth in 2002. Eritrea's economic future depends upon its ability to master social problems such as illiteracy, unemployment, and low skills, and to open its economy to private enterprise so the diaspora's money and ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... afterwards in Hyde Park with my dearest companion, I met my little cousin exercising on horseback with a groom behind him. As soon as he sees us, he gallops up to us, the groom powdering afterwards and bawling out, "Stop, Master ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... sands were running low. He literally took no thought of the morrow, but without staff and little even in the way of scrip unselfishly gave the best years of a life extending two decades beyond the time allotted, to the service of his Master. ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson


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