Synonyms of the word

master

• n. Someone who has control over something or someone.
• n. The owner of an animal or slave.
• n. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
• n. (dated) The head of a household.
• n. Someone who employs others.
• n. An expert at something.
• n. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
• n. (dated) A schoolmaster.
• n. A skilled artist.
• n. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
• n. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
• n. A person holding such a degree.
• n. The original of a document or of a recording.
• n. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
• n. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed…
• n. (engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
• n. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
• n. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
• adj. Masterful.
• adj. Main, principal or predominant.
• adj. Highly skilled.
• adj. Original.
• v. (intransitive) To be a master.
• v. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to…
• v. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to posses.
• v. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
• v. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
• n. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.

artist

• n. A person who creates art.
• n. A person who creates art as an occupation.
• n. A person who is skilled at some activity.
• n. A recording artist.
• adj. (archaic) Artistic.

authority

• n. ability to decide, control.
• n. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
• n. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
• n. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
• n. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

battler

• n. One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general.
• n. (Australia, dated) An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
• n. One who who works hard in the face of adversity.
• n. Alternative form of batteler.

belligerent

• adj. Engaged in warfare, warring.
• adj. Eager to go to war, warlike.
• adj. Of or pertaining to war.
• adj. (By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
• adj. Acting violently towards others.
• adj. uncooperative.
• n. A state or other armed participant in warfare.

bookman

• n. (Old English Law) One who held bookland.
• n. A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student; one who is more familiar with books than with people…
• n. One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.

captain

• n. A chief or leader.
• n. The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
• n. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
• n. A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
• n. A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior…
• n. One of the athletes on a sports team who designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his…
• n. The leader of a group of workers.
• n. A maître d'.
• n. (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
• n. (Internet) Someone who provides contextual information for a post. Originally a shorthand for 'Captain…
• v. (intransitive) To act as captain.
• v. (transitive) To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.

combatant

• n. An armed fighter.
• adj. Contending; disposed to contend.

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

creation

• n. (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
• n. (uncountable) The act of creating something.
• n. (uncountable) All which exists.

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

dominate

• v. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
• v. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.
• v. To enjoy a commanding position in some field.
• v. To overlook from a height.

employer

• n. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

fighter

• n. A person who fights; a combatant.
• n. A warrior; fighting soldier.
• n. A pugnacious, competitive person.
• n. (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially…
• n. A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of…
• n. A boxer or participant in any martial art.
• n. (colloquial) A firefighter.
• n. (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

headmaster

• n. (chiefly Britain) A male school principal.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

know

• v. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
• v. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
• v. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
• v. (transitive) To experience.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence…
• v. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
• v. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
• v. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
• v. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
• n. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.

lord

• n. (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor.
• n. One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or…
• n. One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~).
• n. (astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc..
• n. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A hunchback.
• n. (Britain, Australia, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) Sixpence.
• v. (intransitive and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
• v. (transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.

maestro

• n. A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.

officer

• n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or…
• n. One who holds a public office.
• n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
• n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
• v. (transitive) To supply with officers.
• v. (transitive) To command like an officer.

original

• adj. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
• adj. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions.
• adj. (not comparable) Newly created.
• adj. (comparable) Fresh, different.
• adj. (not comparable) Pioneering.
• adj. (not comparable) Having as its origin.
• n. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
• n. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent.
• n. (archaic) An eccentric.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overlord

• n. A ruler of other rulers.
• n. Anyone with overarching power or authority in a given domain.

passe-partout

• n. (obsolete) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
• n. (obsolete) A master key; a latchkey.
• n. (obsolete) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, etc., usually put between the picture and…

passkey

• n. A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.
• n. (computing) A password.

principal

• adj. Primary; most important.
• adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
• n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• n. A company represented by a salesperson.
• n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
• n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
• n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
• n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• n. (computing) A security principal.

professional

• n. A person who belongs to a profession.
• n. A person who earns his living from a specified activity.
• n. A reputation known by name.
• n. An expert.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
• adj. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
• adj. (by extension) Expert.

ruler

• n. A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement;…
• n. A person who rules or governs; a person who exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
• v. (transitive) To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment).

scholar

• n. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
• n. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
• n. A learned person; a bookman.

schoolmaster

• n. A male teacher.
• n. Male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
• n. Anything that teaches.
• v. To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

scrapper

• n. A person who disposes of scraps.
• n. A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.

skipper

• n. (nautical) The master of a ship.
• n. A coach, director, or other leader.
• n. (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
• v. (transitive) To captain a ship.
• n. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
• n. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
• n. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy…
• n. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
• n. (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
• n. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly, in Piophilidae, which leap to escape predators.

student

• n. A person who studies or learns about a particular academic subject.
• n. (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
• n. A person enrolled at a university.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) A schoolchild.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

superior

• adj. Higher in quality.
• adj. Higher in rank.
• adj. More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
• adj. Located above.
• adj. Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
• adj. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to.
• n. A person of higher rank or quality.
• n. The senior person in a monastic community.

surmount

• v. To get over; to overcome.
• v. To cap; to sit on top off.

swayer

• n. One who or that which sways something.

victor

• n. The winner in a fight or contest.
• n. The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet.