Past Master

Definition: Past Master

Past Master

Noun

1. Someone who was formerly a master.

2. Someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Proficient

Noun: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster, crackerjack; connoisseur; (scholar); master, master hand; prima donna, first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma.

Books

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor or Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite and to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, m (reference)

• Old Past Master, 1924 (reference)

• Past Master (reference)

• The Master of Gray Trilogy: Lord and Master the Courtesan Past Master (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "past master": be a past master in. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏العالم (creation, know all, omniscience, pundit, savant, scientist, world), ‏الخبير (connoisseur, expert, judge), ‏الرئيس السابق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

голям майстор (fiend), несравним майстор. (various references)

Czech

skuteèný mistr. (various references)

French

savant, expert (panelist). (various references)

Hebrew 

מומח�" (adept, dab, expert, master, specialist), בקי (adept, conversant, erudite, expert, proficient, skilled, versed). (various references)

Hungarian

szakértõ (adept, adviser, connoisseur, expert, fancier, judge), nagymester (grand master). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老手 (veteran), 豪の者 (veteran). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うのもの (brave warrior, very strong person, veteran), ろうしゅ (old wine, veteran). (various references)

Manx

shagh-vainshtyr, ard-oayllee. (various references)

Pig Latin

astpay astermay

Romanian

adevãrat maestru. (various references)

Russian 

специалист (expert personnel, master, outside expert, specialist, technician), магистр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

savršen majstor, bivši majstor masonske lože. (various references)

Spanish

maestro consumado. (various references)

Swedish

mästare (boss, champ, champion, master, meister, wizard). (various references)

Turkish

erbap (cognoscente, connoisseur, dab, expert, whizz), üstât (old hand, topflighter, topnotcher, virtuoso). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bậc thầy (magistrally, master). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mattrass, mattress, restamps, smartest, smatters, spatters, stampers, tapsters.

-3 letters: amasser, masters, matrass, matters, pasters, patters, repasts, restamp, sarapes, satraps, smatter, sparest, spatter, stamper, starets, staters, stratas, streams, tampers, tapster, tasters.

-4 letters: aptest, armets, aspers, assert, asters, attars, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, parses, passer, pastas, paster, pastes, paters, patter, praams, prases.

+3 letters: expatriatisms.

+4 letters: epigrammatists.

+5 letters: aromatherapists, semitransparent.