Master

Quick meaning: Master is a noun meaning Someone who has control over something or someone.

Meaning

Someone who has control over something or someone.

More Meanings

1. The owner of an animal or slave.
2. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
3. Someone who employs others.
4. An expert at something.
5. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
6. (dated) A male head of household.
7. (dated) A male schoolteacher.

Example Sentences

We are masters of the sea.

Mark Twain was a master of fiction.

Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three—

When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […].

Word Forms

• masters
• mas'r
• mastre
• Massa
• massa
• massah
• massy
• masta
• Mastah
• mastah
• mastuh
• mastering
• mastered

Synonyms for master

Depending on context, synonyms include skipper, captain, adept, ace, artist, buff.

Antonyms for master

Common opposites include secondary, slave, worker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include professional, overlord, dominate, headmaster, schoolmaster, control.

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