ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mastership

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Mastership is a noun meaning The state or office of a master.

Meaning

The state or office of a master.

More Meanings

  1. Mastery: dominion, superiority, control.
  2. Mastery: superior skill.
  3. A title of respect, sometimes ironic.
  4. (obsolete) Chief work; masterpiece.

Example Sentences

I cannot doubt my mastership of fate, Nor bind my boundless soul.
Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas! Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
A Repentant Sinner is the Child of Grace, who being borne for the seruice of God, makes no reckoning of the mastershippe of the world [...]
Johnson, in August 1738, went, with all the same of his poetry, to offer himself a candidate for the mastership of the school at Appleby, in Leicestershire.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include housemastership, schoolmastership, taskmastership, schoolmasterhood, headmastership, maister.

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