What does master mean?
Master means Someone who has control over something or someone..
Master
/ˈmɑːs.tə/ · noun
Meaning
Someone who has control over something or someone..
Definitions by Sense
- 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) A male head of household.
- Someone who employs others.
- An expert at something.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (dated) A male schoolteacher.
Example Sentences
We are masters of the sea.
Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […].
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three—
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
Mark Twain was a master of fiction.
But that which chiefly distinguishes Addison from Swift, from Voltaire, from almost all the other great masters of ridicule, is the grace, the nobleness, the moral purity, which we find even in his merriment.
Synonyms for master
Antonyms for master
Related Words
Word Forms
- masters
- maistre
- Marse
- marse
- mas'r
- Master
- mastre
- maister
- mayster
- Massa
- massa
- massah
- massy
- masta
- Mastah
- mastah
- mastuh
- measter
- mester
- mister
- mastering
- mastered
Usage Notes
Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a synonym for master?
Common synonyms include skipper, captain, adept, ace.
What is the opposite of master?
Possible antonyms include secondary, slave, worker.
How do you use master in a sentence?
We are masters of the sea.
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