Mastership

Definition: Mastership

Mastership

Noun

1. The position of master.

Date "mastership" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Authority	Mastery, mastership, masterdom; dictation, control.
Skill	Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Master and Mastership (reference) Mastership (reference) Pathways to Mastership Meditations (Double Audio CD) (reference) The Path to Mastership (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Mastership" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mastership" is used about 21 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)	100%	21	76,261

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.

Language		Translations for "mastership"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjeshtëri (accomplishment, art, artifice, artistry, experience, expertise, finesse, hand, handicraft, masterliness, mastery, neatness, profession, proficiency, skill, workmanship), zotërim (assimilation, command, dominance, domination, enjoyment, grasp, holding, keeping, lordship, mastery, occupancy, occupation, ownership, possession, tenure), pushtim (capture, conquest, invasion, jaw, seizing, seizure, take over, taking). (various references)

Arabic		‏السيادة (sovereignty), ‏الأستاذية (professorate, professorship), ‏البراعة. (various references)

Bulgarian		господство (ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, empire, hegemony, lordship, mastery, rule, supremacy), властничество, власт (arm, attribution, authority, authorization, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, jurisdiction, lordship, mastery, obedience, potency, power, reign, rule), майсторство (artistry, hand, mastery, workmanship), задълбочени познания в, пост на учител. (various references)

Czech		mistrovství (championship, craft, masterliness, mastery). (various references)

French		maîtrise (masters, mastery, supervisory management), domination (mastery). (various references)

German		Meisterschaft (championship, championships, mastery). (various references)

Hungarian		hatalom (ascendancy, authority, empire, force, hank, hold, lever, leverage, lordship, mastery, might, potency, power, sway). (various references)

Italian		padronanza (command, control, grasp, masterhood, mastery), dominio (command, demesne, domain, domination, dominion, lordship, mastery, rule, sway), autorit� (authority, control, designated approving authority, dominion, lordship, power), abilit� (ability, accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, artifice, capability, capacity, cleverness, craft, cunning, expertise, expertness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, prowess, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, sleight). (various references)

Manx		mainshteraght (mastery), captanys (captaincy, commodoreship). (various references)

Pig Latin		astershipmay

Portuguese		mestria (artistry, mastery, perfection, prowess), mestrado em administração de empresas (me), perícia (cleverness, craftsmanship, expertise, hand, knack, perfection, science, skill), domínio (ascendance, ascendancy, command, domain, dominance, domination, dominion, energy, estate, grasp, gripe, handgrip, hold, inning, lordship, magnetic domain, masterdom, mastery, ownership, power, property, protection domain, province, range, realm, regency, reign, rein, ruling, tenure), controle (bagman, broker, candyman, command, control, dealer, domination, governess, grip, hand, manage, pusher, tune up), autoridade (arm, authority, command, designated approving authority, domination, domino, energy, hand, majolica, mastery, potency, power, right, rod, scepter, sceptre, warrant). (various references)

Romanian		funcţie de corector, funcţie de conducere, direcţie (bearing, board, course, departure, direction, directorate, drift, lay, leadership, manager's office, path, run, set, setting, track, trend, way), conducere (administration, conduct, control, direction, directorate, driving, governance, government, guidance, helm, lead, leadership, leading, management, scepter, sceptre, steerage, superintendence, sway), administraţie (administration, board, direction, governance, government, intendance, management). (various references)

Russian		главенство, мастерство (art, craftsmanship, craftsmenship, excellence, masterliness, mastery, prowess, skill, workmanship). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		majstorstvo (masterliness, mastery), uprava (administration, authority, bureau, direction, directorate, division, government, regimen). (various references)

Spanish		artesanía (craftsmanship, handicraft, handiwork). (various references)

Swedish		mästerskap (championship). (various references)

Turkish		ustalık (art, artfulness, craftsmanship, deftness, dexterity, expertness, facility, feat, finesse, hand, handiness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, masterliness, mastery, perfection, proficiency, skill, sleight, subtility, subtlety, virtuosity, wizardry, workmanship), sahiplik (dominion, ownership, possession, possessive, possessory, title), hocalık. (various references)

Ukranian		майстерність (address, art, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, feat, finesse, handicraft, mastery, neatness, proficiency, skill, workmanship), зверхність, посада вчителя. (various references)

Vietnamese		quyền lực (attribution, authority, control, dominion, force, lordship, mastery, power), nghề l� m thầy quyết l� m chủ, chức vụ l� m thầy. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mastership": masterships. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mastership": headmastership, postmastership. (additional references)
	Words containing "mastership": headmasterships, postmasterships. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mastership" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: masatoshi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mastership" (pronounced 'Mas"ter*ship'): Abbotship, Accompliceship, Accountantship, Acquaintanceship, Administratorship, Admiralship, Advisership, Advocateship, AEdileship, Agentship, Airmanship, Aldermanship, Almonership, Amateurship, Ambassadorship, Apostleship, Apprenticeship, Archdeaconship, Archership, Archonship, Assessorship, Associateship, Attorneyship, Auditorship, Augurship, Authorship, Autocratship, Babyship, Bachelorship, Bardship, Beadleship, Beauship, Boatmanship, Burgess-ship, Burghership, Bursarship, Butlership, Cadetship, Candidateship, Canonship, Captainship, Cardinalship, Censorship, Chairmanship, Chamberlainship, Championship, Chancellorship, Chaplainship, Chargeship, Chief-justiceship. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: shipmaster.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-p-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: marshiest, mateships, misphrase, samphires, seraphims, shipmates, steamship.
	-2 letters: asterism, atheisms, emphasis, hamsters, harpists, hipsters, impastes, impresas, imprests, marishes, mateship, mishears, misparse, misparts, misrates, misshape, parishes, pastimes, pastries, piasters, piastres, primates, raspiest, restamps, samphire, seraphim, sharpest, sharpies, shipmate, smarties, smithers, stampers, starship, teraphim, traipses, trampish, triphase.
	-3 letters: aphesis, armpits, ashiest, aspires, atheism, esprits, hampers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-p-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: masterships, shipmasters.
	+2 letters: atmospherics, misanthropes, primateships, sympathizers.
	+3 letters: metamorphisms, metamorphosis, misanthropies, transshipment, watermanships.
	+4 letters: amphiprostyles, headmastership, moderatorships, postmastership, sportfisherman, subatmospheric, thermoplastics, transshipments.
	+5 letters: aromatherapists, chemotherapists, headmasterships, hyperparasitism, hyperstimulates, postmasterships, superhumanities.
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