master – English noun declension

English noun forms of master

Noun: master
Singularmaster
Pluralmasters

Sample Sentences

  • We are masters of the sea. [1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides:]
  • 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. [1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:]
  • When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […]. [1712 November 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, November 13, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 535; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 97:]
  • 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. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:]
  • Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three— [1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Mary Gloster:]
  • 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. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:]
  • 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. [1843 July, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. VII—The Life of Joseph Addison. By Lucy Aikin.”, in The Edinburgh Review, number CLVII, page 231:]
  • No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. [1693, [John Locke], “§189”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:]
  • Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner; now I am the master.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a master of evil, Darth. [1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope:]
  • A turning point came earlier this year. In January 2000, the local Qigong master who treated me asked me to find Falun Gong material on the Internet for him. [2001, “People with Cancer”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health, Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:]
  • Where there are little Maſters and Miſſes in a Houſe, they are uſually great Impediments to the Diverſions of the Servants; [1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:]
  • She has a master in psychology.
  • He is a master of marine biology.
  • The band couldn't find the master, so they re-recorded their tracks.
  • Many modern recording artists value owning their masters.
  • The case was tried by a master, who concluded that the plaintiffs were the equitable owners of the property.[…]
  • a master wheel
  • a master database
  • The use of masters and submasters will enable suites of rooms to be controlled by one key. [2020, Jane M. Wiggins, Facilities Manager's Desk Reference, page 517:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.?
4. Proto-Italic *magisteros
5. Latin magister, magistrum
6. Old French maistrebor.
7. ▲
8. Latin magisterder.
9. Old English mǣġester
10. Middle English maister
11. English master
12. From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (as in magnus (“great”), also cognate of English much and mickle) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister. See: Middle English Nouns 'maister', Old English Nouns 'mǣster', Latin Nouns 'magister', Dutch Nouns 'meester', German Nouns 'Meister'.

Verbs referencing "master"

Finnish Nouns master, French Nouns master, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns master, Romanian Nouns master, German Nouns Master, Catalan Nouns màster.