Meaning

• Noun

  1. Someone who has control over something or someone.
  2. The owner of an animal or slave.
  3. The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
  4. A male head of a household.
  5. Someone who employs others.
  6. An expert at something.
  7. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
  8. A male schoolteacher.
  9. A skilled artist.
  10. A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
  11. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
  12. A person holding such a degree.
  13. The original of a document or of a recording.
  14. The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
  15. A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
  16. A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
  17. A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
  18. A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
  19. Short for master key.
  20. A male dominant.

• Adj
• Verb