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      master
      noun
      Someone who has control over something or someone.
      The owner of an animal or slave.
      (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
      Someone who employs others.
      An expert at something.
      A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
      A skilled artist.
      A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
      A person holding such a degree.
      The original of a document or of a recording.
      (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
      (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
      (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
      (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
      (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
      (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
      (BDSM) A male dominant.
      (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
      Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a (now somewhat formal) form of address.
      A religious teacher, often as an honorific title.
      The title of the head of certain colleges and schools.
      A master's degree.
      A person holding a master's degree, as a title.
      The title of the eldest son of a Scots lord.
      The owner of a slave, in some literature.
      (BDSM) Used as the title of a dominant, especially a male one.
      (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.
      (banking) Mastercard
      Ellipsis of master key. [A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey.]
      (dated) A male head of household.
      (dated) A male schoolteacher.
      (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
      verb
      (intransitive) To be a master.
      (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
      (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
      (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
      (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
      (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
      adjective
      Masterful.
      Main, principal or predominant.
      Highly skilled.
      Original.
      Roots
      magnusmagister- · Latin · great, more
      Synonyms for master
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      Where does master come from?

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