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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



... rather a hazardous experiment of the author, but is executed with success. Atherton, the hero, is then a city apprentice. These were the days of Wilkes and Liberty, and Atherton, through his protracted attachment to the cause, is locked out by his master, John Bryant. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 493, June 11, 1831 • Various
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... a poet not to be suspected of giving way to superstitious terrors; yet, when he supposes the whole mechanism of nature laid open by the master of his philosophy, his transport on this magnificent view, which he has represented in the colors of such bold and lively poetry, is overcast with a shade of secret dread ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
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... delight, several attempts toward removal of the said superstratum of dirt and chaff from the Elizabethan histories, in several articles, all evidently from the same pen (and that one, more perfectly master of English prose than any man living), in the 'Westminster Review' ...
— Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time from - "Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays" • Charles Kingsley
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... which he greatly exaggerated. "Nobody knows how much 'tis," said he: "but everybody s'poses that will and all it must be thirty or forty thousand," and as the doctor was just then seen riding into the yard John walked away to attend to his master's horse. ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
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... under the influence of Descartes, whose work he always regarded with the deepest respect. The cautiousness of the master had done much to disguise the insidious dangers of his thought, and it was in the hands of those disciples who developed his system and sought to reconcile it at all points with orthodoxy that his ideas displayed their true nature. ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
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