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/ˈmɑːs.t(ə.)ɹi/ · noun
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority..
If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
The voice of them that shout for mastery.
Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
He […]could attain to a mastery in all languages.
The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.
Use mastery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mastery means The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority..
Common synonyms include control, command, supremacy, domination.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
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