Master

• master
• Massa, Mastah (slave sense only; AAVE)

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

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Master (plural Masters)

1. Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a (now somewhat formal) form of address.
   • 1995, Barbara Hambly, Children of the Jedi, page 81:

     "I'm terribly sorry, Master Luke," apologized the droid.

2. A religious teacher, often as an honorific title.
3. The title of the head of certain colleges and schools.
4. A master's degree.
5. A person holding a master's degree, as a title.
6. The title of the eldest son of a Scots lord.

   The eldest son of Lord Forbes is known as the Master of Forbes.

7. The owner of a slave, in some literature.
8. (BDSM) Used as the title of a dominant.

Master

1. (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca alongside the Father and Sage and representing a boy or a young man
   • 2002, A. J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 89

     ...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

   • 2003, A. J. Drew, Patricia Telesco, God/Goddess: Exploring and Celebrating the Two Sides of Wiccan Deity, page 38:

     In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.

   • 2009, Debbe Tompkins, Witch School: Living the Wiccan Life, page 18

     Master of the Seasons of the Year, I call upon you and ask you to be here with me in this, my ritual.

2. (banking) Mastercard

• (antonym(s) of “Wicca”): Maiden

• Master of the Rolls
• Master of the Household
• Master of the Horse
• Master of the bench
• Master of foxhounds
• MEd
• Chancery Master

• Stamer, ramset, metras, matres, mastre, maters, armets, armest, termas, tamers, trémas, remast, Tamers, Stream, ramets, 'maters, stream, METARs, tremas, Amster

• Moaster (Central Bavarian)

From Middle High German meister, from Old High German meistar, from Proto-West Germanic *maistar (“master”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːsd̥ɐ/

Master m (plural Master) (East Central)

1. master
2. (sports) champion

Borrowed from English master. Doublet of Maestro, Magister, and Meister.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːstɐ/

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Master m (strong, genitive Masters, plural Master)

1. master's degree
2. master graduate

• Masterprüfung
• Masterstudiengang

• Bachelor
• Diplom

From māster (“master”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːster/

Māster m

1. God, the Lord, the Creator

Declension of Māster (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	Māster	—
genitive	Māsteres	—
dative	Māstere	—
accusative	Māster	—