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Maestro

Definition: Maestro

Maestro

Noun

1. An artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters".

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

Date "maestro" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Maestro \Ma*es"tro\, noun. [Italian expression, from the Latin expression magister. See Master.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Maestro

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

MAESTRO

EnglishMaintenance System based on Telepresence for Remote OperatorsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Maestro

Synonym: master (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Maestro

English words defined with "maestro": accede, acquiesce, assent. (references)
Specialty definitions using "maestro": Marriage Plates. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Maestro" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (maestro, Professor), Czech (maestro), French (adept, maestro, master, Professor), German (maestro), Italian (boss, instructor, maestro, main, master, masterly, schoolmaster, teacher), Papiamen (adept, maestro, master), Portuguese (bandmaster, maestro), Serbo-Croatian (maestro, master), Spanish (crack, Dean, do all, expert, instructor, lecturer, maestro, main, master, masterful, masterly, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher), Swedish (maestro).

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Modern Usage: Maestro

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Woah, slow down there maestro. There's a New Mexico? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Looks don't concern me, Maestro. Only talent interests a woman of taste. (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)

The maestro of manipulation himself, Arliss Michaels. (Arli$$; writing credit: Scott Kaufer)

Lyrics

With a producer who can rap and control the maestro ("Nuthin But A "G" Thang"; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Movie/TV Titles

Diario di un maestro (1973)

Il Maestro e Margherita (1972)

Ma che musica maestro (1971)

Mi Maestro (1968)

Il Grande maestro (1967)

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

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Commercial Usage: Maestro

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Segovia Style: Classical Guitar of the Maestro (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Maestro

Illustrations:
Maestro

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Maestro

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Non-Fiction Usage: Maestro

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The bank will be issuing 500,000 cards with the Maestro and Master Card logos by 2004. 50,000 cards will be issued the first year of the agreement. (references)

Commenting on the cooperation, OshchadBank's Deputy Chairman of the Board, Sergiy Volkov stated Europay International's Maestro debit card was accepted for the first stage of the cooperative program. (references)

Travel

Latvia

VISA and MasterCard and debetcards Maestro and Cirrus are widely accepted, only few places accept Diners or American Express. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Maestro

"Maestro" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.61% of the time. "Maestro" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.61%10931,132
Noun (proper)4.39%5157,705
                    Total100.00%114N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Maestro

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

maestro

317

del dia maestro

176

dvd maestro

122

maestro mia

49

ess maestro

48

johnny maestro

40

audiovox maestro

39

solis maestro

32

music maestro

27

maestro presupuesto

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Maestro

Language Translations for "maestro"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

maestro (Professor). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فنان (artist, master, performer, songster), ‏مايسترو قائد موسيقي (conductor), ‏قائد فرقة موسيقية (bandmaster, director), ‏أستاذ في فن ما. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

маестро (master). (various references)

   

Czech

  

maestro. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

meester (adept, boss, master, Petty Officer, Petty Officer First Class, title by courtesy given to members of the legal professions(magistrates excepted)and spelled mostly in the abridged form:Me), maëstro (adept, master), grootmeester (adept, master). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

majstro (master). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

meistari (adept, master). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mestari (adept, chairman, champion, expert, finisher, gaffer, maker, master, workman). (various references)

   

French

  

maestro (master). (various references)

   

German

  

Meister (adept, boss, Buster, chairman, champion, chief, finisher, foreman, gaffer, Lord, Mac, maker, master, masters, showman, workman). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μουσικοδιδάσκαλοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מאסטרו, רב אמן (virtuoso). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mester (master, virtuosi, virtuoso). (various references)

   

Italian

  

maestro (boss, instructor, main, master, masterly, schoolmaster, teacher). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(master, masterhand). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マエストロ , きょしょう (falling tone, master, masterhand, proof, wealthy merchant). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

maestro (adept, master). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aestromay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

mestre (adept, boss, educe, gaffer, Governor-elect, instructor, master, nailer, skipper, teacher), majestoso (August, grandiosely, imposition, kingly, leonine, lofty, majestic, olympian, queenly, royal, solemn, stately), maestro (bandmaster), compositor (author, clicker, composer, compositor, maker-up, mixer, musician, setter, set-up and type man, songwriter, typesetter). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

maestru (artistic, artistical, dabster, expert, master). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

маэстро. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

majstor (artificer, artisan, master, repairer, repairman), maestro (master). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

maestro (crack, Dean, do all, expert, instructor, lecturer, main, master, masterful, masterly, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher), arista eminent en cualquiere de las bellas artes. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

maestro, mästäre. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้ชำนาญในศิลปะแขนงต่างๆ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maystro, orkestra şefi (conductor, director), üstâd (adept, expert, master, the master). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

маестро. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Maestro

Derivations

Words beginning with "maestro": maestros. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Maestro" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avestruz, kastrou, maeistrom, maerstrom, maestrom, Maestrone, maestso, Magstore, Maisto, Maitri, majesto, masto, meastro, meator, mesotron, mesto, mestre, miestro, minestra, mistro, Naseiro, Nuestro. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Maestro"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "maestro" (pronounced mī"strō)
4-s t r ōbistro, dextro.
3-t r ōcilantro, electro, intro, nitro, retro.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Maestro

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: armets, master, maters, matres, metros, oaters, orates, ramets, ramose, stream, stroma, tamers.

-2 letters: amort, armet, arose, aster, atoms, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, metro, moats, morae, moras, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, oater, omers, orate, ramet, rates, ratos, reams, roams, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, satem, smart, smear, smote, stare, steam, stoae, stoma, store, storm, tamer, tames, tares, taros, teams, tears, terms, toeas, tomes, toras, tores, torse, trams.

-3 letters: aero, ares, arms, arse, arts, ates, atom, ears, east, eats, eras, eros, erst, etas, maes, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, meta, moas, moat, mora, more, mors, mort, most, mote, mots, oars, oast, oats, omer, ores, orts, osar, rams, rase, rate, rato, rats, ream, rems, rest, rets, roam, roes, roms, rose, rota, rote, rots, same, sate, seam, sear, seat, sera, seta, soar, soma, some, sora, sore, sort, star, stem, stoa, tame, tams, taos, tare, taro, tars, team, tear, teas, term, toea, toes, tome, toms, tora, tore, tors, tram, tsar.

-4 letters: are, arm, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, ems, era, ers, eta, mae, mar, mas, mat, met, moa, mor, mos, mot, oar, oat, oes, oms, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, ram, ras, rat, rem, res, ret, roe, rom, rot, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, som, sot, tae, tam, tao, tar, tas, tea, toe, tom, tor.

-5 letters: ae, am, ar, as, at, em, er, es, et, ma, me, mo, oe, om, or, os, re, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: amortise, atomiser, bromates, foremast, formates, maestros, marmoset, monstera, onstream, rearmost, tearooms, teraohms, tonearms.

 

+2 letters: aftermost, amarettos, amitroles, amorettos, amortised, amortises, amortizes, anterooms, astrodome, atheromas, atomisers, atomizers, bergamots, castoreum, chromates, combaters, cremators, dameworts, democrats, elastomer, emanators, emulators, estimator, foremasts, gasometer, heartsome, keratomas, maelstrom, marlstone, marmosets, martellos, mediators, mestranol, metaphors, moderates, moderatos, monastery, monsteras, mortgages, mousetrap, ornaments, osmeteria, outdreams, oysterman, reformats, rolamites, roommates, salometer, stateroom, steamroll, stomacher, tapeworms, tautomers, teamworks, temporals, teratomas, workmates.

 

+3 letters: adornments, aerometers, aeronomist, ambrotypes, ametropias, antismoker, arboretums, aromatizes, assortment, astrodomes, astrometry, astronomer, atmometers, atmosphere, augmentors, automakers, barometers, blastoderm, blastomere, brominates, castoreums, compacters, costmaries, cremations, dermatomes, dermatoses, dermatosis, dockmaster, downstream, earthworms, elastomers, estimators, forcemeats, formatives, formatters, formulates, fumatories, gasometers, gastronome, hammertoes, heartworms, hectograms, imperators, ironmaster, isothermal, latecomers, loadmaster, lobsterman, macerators, macrocytes, maelstroms, magnetrons, majorettes, majorities, manometers, manticores, marlstones, masterwork, meditators, meliorates, mesothorax, mestranols, metalworks, microstate, moderators, molarities, monetarism, monetarist, monstrance, moralities, morganites, mortarless, mortgagees, mortgagers, mortuaries, motorcades, mousetraps, nanometers, numerators, octameters, outmarches, outsmarted, overmaster, permafrost, postmarked, postmaster, preformats, protamines, ramosities, reformates, rotameters, salometers, scleromata, somersault, staterooms, steamrolls, stereogram, stomachers, stramonies, tambourers, terraforms, thermostat, thimerosal, toolmakers, trematodes, treponemas.

 

+4 letters: aeronomists, allometries, ameliorates, amoralities, anemometers, antimoderns, antismokers, assortments, astrometric, astronomers, astronomies, atmosphered, atmospheres, atmospheric, attornments, audiometers, autoerotism, barnstormed, barnstormer, barometries, bichromates, blastoderms, blastomeres, bloodstream, burgomaster, cafetoriums, camphorates, champertous, choirmaster, commiserate, compensator, craftswomen, creationism, crematories, demonstrate, dermatogens, dichromates, dockmasters, dogmatizers, earthmovers, easternmost, elastomeric, eliminators, emasculator, emigrations, enantiomers, enumerators, ergotamines, farthermost, formalities, gangsterdom, gastrectomy, gastronomes, hatemongers, heartsomely, hematocrits, heteroatoms, homesteader, homopterans, housemaster, immortalise, impersonate, importances, inseminator, ironmasters, largemouths, lepromatous, loadmasters, macerations, macrophytes, malefactors, mandatories, manometries, marathoners, marionettes, masterworks, matrimonies, mayoralties, meliorators, memorialist, mensuration, meritocrats, meroblastic, metanephros, methylators, microstates, misanthrope, miscreation, moderations, monasteries, monetarisms, monetarists, monstrances, mortadellas, mortalities, motherlands, nitrosamine, normalities, numerations, ordainments, orientalism, ornamentals, ostracoderm, overmantels, overmasters, overmatches, patrimonies, pentamerous, peristomial, permafrosts, permeations, petrolatums, portamentos, postmasters, promulgates, radiometers, remonstrant, remonstrate, remortgages, remotivates, renominates, retransform, romanticise, salinometer, scoutmaster, somersaults, spectrogram, spermatozoa, steamrolled, steamroller, stereograms, tachometers, tambourines, tautomerism, temerarious, temporaries, terminators, tetramerous, thermograms, thermostats, thermotaxes, thermotaxis, thimerosals, threadworms, timocracies, toastmaster, tourmalines, tournaments, tramontanes, trampolines, transformed, transformer, trypanosome, variometers, watermelons, whoremaster, wolframites.

 

+5 letters: achromatizes, actinometers, adjournments, agglomerates, ambidextrous, ambulatories, ameliorators, amentiferous, aminopterins, anemometries, anticonsumer, approximates, arteriograms, astrometries, atheromatous, atmospherics, audiometries, autoerotisms, barnstormers, biomaterials, bloodstreams, bombardments, brainstormed, brainstormer, burgomasters, calorimeters, centimorgans, choirmasters, chrestomathy, commemorates, commensurate, commentaries, commentators, commiserated, commiserates, comparatives, compartments, compensators, compensatory, conservatism, countermands, craniotomies, creationisms, crematoriums, cryptomerias, deformations, demarcations, democratizes, demodulators, demonstrable, demonstrably, demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrator, denominators, diastereomer, dilatometers, disseminator, dominatrices, dominatrixes, dynamometers, earthmovings, electrograms, emancipators, emasculators, embarkations, embrocations, enamorations, enterostomal, enumerations, ergastoplasm, erythematous, euchromatins, ferromagnets, footlamberts, frontiersman, gametophores, gangsterdoms, gastrocnemii, gastronomies, germinations, gradiometers, grandmothers, harbormaster, headforemost, heterogamies, heterogamous, homesteaders, housemasters, hypothermias, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalizes, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, impregnators, inseminators, isodiametric, isothermally, keratotomies, laparotomies, legitimators, macrocytoses, macrogametes, macropterous, madreporites, malversation, masterstroke, megaprojects, meliorations, memorialists, menstruation, mensurations, meprobamates, mercurations, mesothoraces, mesothoracic, mesothoraxes, metalworkers, metamorphism, metamorphose, metathoraces, metathoraxes, metrications, microgametes, mineralogist, misanthropes, miscreations, moderateness, modularities, motherboards, motorboaters, mountaineers, mousetrapped, nitrosamines, nomenclators, nonarguments, nontemporals, operationism, orientalisms, osmolarities, osteosarcoma, ostracoderms, outmaneuvers, ovariotomies, overestimate, overgarments, overmastered, overpayments, permutations, polarimeters, pomegranates, portmanteaus, postimperial, predominates, prenominates, problematics, proctodaeums, radiochemist, radiometries, rambouillets, reanimations, reassumption, reclamations, recombinants, recommittals, reformations, reformulates, remediations, remigrations, remonstrance, remonstrants, remonstrated, remonstrates, remonstrator, remunerators, retransforms, rodomontades, romanticised, romanticises, romanticizes, salinometers, sarcomatoses, schoolmaster, scoutmasters, semitropical, somatopleure, somersaulted, spectrograms, spermatocyte, spermatozoal, spermatozoan, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, steamrollers, steamrolling, stenothermal, stigmasterol, stonemasonry, stromatolite, superstardom, surmountable, tautomerisms, temporalizes, terminations, tetrazoliums, thermographs, thermostable, thermostated, thermostatic, thromboxanes, toastmasters, tomographies, tracheostomy, trampoliners, transformers, transmontane, trypanosomes, unmoralities, whoremasters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maestro


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

4D 61 65 73 74 72 6F

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001101 01100001 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0065 0073 0074 0072 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

47677185868481

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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