master

English

/ˈmɑːstə/, /ˈmastə/, /ˈmæstɚ/

noun
Definitions
  • Someone who has control over something or someone.
  • The owner of an animal or slave.
  • (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
  • (dated) The head of a household.
  • Someone who employs others.
  • An expert at something.
  • A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
  • (dated) A schoolmaster.
  • A skilled artist.
  • (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
  • A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
  • 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.
  • (legal) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
  • (engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
  • (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
  • (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English maister inherited from Old English mǣster derived from Latin magister (master, teacher, chief, head, a master, director, etc, leader, superior) derived from Old Latin magester derived from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (great, big, many, stout) borrowed from Old French maistre (master).

Origin

Old French

maistre

Gloss

master

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

主

Emoji

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