TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

  

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TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

Definition: TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

1. To be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody. Note: Master, signifying chief, principal, masterly, superior, thoroughly skilled, etc., is often used adjiectively or in compounds; as, master builder or master-builder, master chord or master-chord, master mason or master-mason, master workman or master-workman, master mechanic, master mind, master spirit, master passion, etc. Throughout the city by the master gate. --Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

Language Translations for "TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

maga ura. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ebay one'say ownay astermay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

esse suae potestatis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Alternative Orthography: TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 45      4F 4E 45 27 53      4F 57 4E      4D 41 53 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

                

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01000101 00100000 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001111 01010111 01001110 00100000 01001101 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0045      004F 004E 0045 0027 0053      004F 0057 004E      004D 0041 0053 0054 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544923639249483995324957482473553543952

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Non-English Dictionaries with "TO BE ONE'S OWN MASTER"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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