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Definition: Maestro |
MaestroNoun1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAESTRO | English | Maintenance System based on Telepresence for Remote Operators | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: MaestroSynonym: master (n). (additional references) |
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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
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Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.61% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.39% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 | 巨 (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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "maestro": maestros. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "maestro" (pronounced mī"strō) |
| 4 | -s t r ō | bistro, dextro. |
| 3 | -t r ō | cilantro, electro, intro, nitro, retro. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 65 73 74 72 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- . ... - .-. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a e s t r o |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677185868481 |
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