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Definition: Mastery |
MasteryNoun1. Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French". 2. Power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas". 3. The act of mastering or subordinating someone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mastery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Mastery \Mas"ter*y\, noun; plural Masteries. [Old French expression maistrie.]. (references) |
Synonyms: MasterySynonyms: command (n), control (n), domination (n), subordination (n), supremacy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Mastery, mastership, masterdom; dictation, control. |
Resolution | Mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial; moral courage, moral strength; perseverance; a; tenacity; obstinacy; bulldog; British lion. |
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). |
Success | Advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation; (subjection). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mastery |
| English words defined with "mastery": cicero, cinch, consummate ♦ Decertation, descriptive linguistics ♦ Governail ♦ High Renaissance ♦ Magistery, Maistry, Marcus Tullius Cicero, masterful, Masteries, mastering, masterly, masterstroke, matchless ♦ nonpareil ♦ one, one and only ♦ peerless ♦ scholar, scholarly person, student, synchronic linguistics ♦ To drive to the wall, Tully ♦ unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled ♦ virtuoso ♦ Whip hand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mastery": Albin ♦ Beard ♦ Dying ♦ Expert Testimony ♦ Fighting Kings ♦ Idols ♦ Kiss ♦ LAOCOON, Lips ♦ PHOTOGRAMMETRIST ♦ Tibni ♦ Unix weenie ♦ webmaster, Work levels. (references) |
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Clever | Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mastery of GPMs (1964) For the Mastery of the World (1914) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Self mastery comes through denial of the little things. |
George Eliot | The earliest and oldest and longest has still the mastery of us. |
Halleck | One rare, strange virtue in speeches, and the secret of their mastery, is, that they are short. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Mastery passes often for egotism. |
Michelangelo | If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. |
Walter F. Mondale | Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman group in the mastery of the world |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. |
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| "Mastery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mastery" is used about 408 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% | 408 | 13,799 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mastery": artistic mastery. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "mastery": self-mastery. | |
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| 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 "mastery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mjeshtëri (accomplishment, art, artifice, artistry, experience, expertise, finesse, hand, handicraft, masterliness, mastership, neatness, profession, proficiency, skill, workmanship), zotërim (assimilation, command, dominance, domination, enjoyment, grasp, holding, keeping, lordship, mastership, occupancy, occupation, ownership, possession, tenure), kontroll (checkup, clutches, control, disposal, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, monitoring, probe, restraint, search, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification). (various references) | |
Arabic | تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, preponderate, prevalence, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence), تمكن (ability, can, competence), تضلع (capability), سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, overriding, predominance, predomination, prevalence, reign, restraint, rule, ruling, weight), سيادة (dominion, law, lordship, seigniory, sovereign, supremacy, suzerainty), براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, sleight of hand, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвършено владение, съвършено овладяване, съвършено познаване, господство (ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, empire, hegemony, lordship, mastership, rule, supremacy), власт (arm, attribution, authority, authorization, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, jurisdiction, lordship, mastership, obedience, potency, power, reign, rule), владичество (empire, sway), надмощие (ascendancy, ascendant, dominance, grasp, hegemony, overweight, predominance, supremacy), майсторство (artistry, hand, mastership, workmanship), изкуство (art). (various references) | |
Chinese | 精通 (Conversant). (various references) | |
Czech | mistrovství (championship, craft, masterliness, mastership), zbìhlost (proficiency). (various references) | |
Danish | teknisk formåen (heritage of technical mastery), beherskelse af sagkundskab (know-how mastery, know-how total domain). (various references) | |
Dutch | verwerven van het know-how (know-how mastery, know-how total domain), bezit aan vakmanschap,aanwezig vakmanschap (heritage of technical mastery). (various references) | |
Farsi | سلطه (Ascendency, Yoke), اربابی (Upperhand). (various references) | |
Finnish | mestaruus (championship), taituruus (skill, virtuosity). (various references) | |
French | maîtrise (masters, mastership), supériorité, prééminence, domination (mastership). (various references) | |
German | Herrschaft (authority, control, dominance, dominion, estate, grip, ladies and gentlemen, lordship, masteries, Mr. and Mrs., power, regimen, reign, rule). (various references) | |
Greek | απόλυτος έλεγχος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מומחיות (competence, expertise, expertness, skill, speciality, specialization, specialty), מרות (authority, discipline, obedience, rule), שליט" (ascendancy, authority, command, control, disposal, disposition, dominance, domination, dominion, predominance, predomination, proficiency, take over), א"ו ות (command, lordship), א" ות (authority, lordship, reign). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiválóság (Ace, distinction, eminence, excellence, excellency, leading man, personage, pre eminence, prominence, splendour, worthy), uralom (domain, domination, dominion, empire, hegemony, Raj, regime, reign, rule, suzerainty, sway), beható ismeret, alapos ismeret. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penguasaan (authority), keagungan (grandeur, greatness, majesty). (various references) | |
Italian | padronanza (command, control, grasp, masterhood, mastership). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 制覇 (conquest, domination). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいとく (comprehension, experience, knack, realization), しゅうじゅく (developing skill, expert, skilled), せいぎょ (adult fish, checking, control, governing, management, raw or fresh fish, repression, restraint, suppression), せいあつ (ascendancy, control, gaining total control, oppression, suppression, supremacy), せいは (conquest, domination), じゅくたつ, てきき (skill). (various references) | |
Korean | 지배 (Bossing, Dominant, Dominating, Domination, governance, mastering, reign, ruling). (various references) | |
Manx | mainshteraght (mastership), laue-lhomys, laue yn eaghtyr (advantage, advantage upper hand, superiority, victory, whiphand). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asterymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mestria (artistry, mastership, perfection, prowess), superioridade (advantage, archness, better, boot, chic, distinction, eminence, precedence, precedency, pre-eminence, prepotency, superiority), domínio (ascendance, ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, dominion, energy, estate, lordship, masterdom, mastership, ownership, power, property, province, realm, regency, reign, rein, ruling, tenure), conhecimento profundo (deep knowledge), comando (behest, bidding, captaincy, charge, command, commando, conduct, energy, leadership, leading, power, tune-up), autoridade (arm, authority, command, domination, dominion, energy, hand, majesty, mastership, potency, power, right, rod, scepter, sceptre, warrant). (various references) | |
Romanian | mãiestrie (artistry, craft, craftsmanship, masterliness, workmanship), stãpânire (authority, command, continence, control, demesne, dominance, domination, dominion, empire, enjoyment, government, grip, hand, holding, keeping, lordship, masterdom, ownership, possession, reign, rule, sovereignty, sway), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), perfecţiune (excellence, excellency, perfection, ripeness, tiptop), cunoaştere (acquaintance, cognition, knowing, knowledge), autoritate (ascendency, authorities, authority, command, control, credit, cropper, faculty, force, governance, government, hold, importance, influence, jurisdiction, lordship, masterdom, power, rulership), artã (art, artistry, skill). (various references) | |
Russian | господство (dominance, domination, predominance, prevalence, raj), власть (ascendancy, ascendency, attribution, authority, clutch, control, domination, governance, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, power, sway), владычество (dominion, raj), мастерство (art, craftsmanship, craftsmenship, excellence, masterliness, mastership, prowess, skill, workmanship). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | majstorstvo (masterliness, mastership), vičnost (cleverness, dexterity, proficiency, skillfulness, technique), nadmoć (ascendancy, domination, preponderance, superiority). (various references) | |
Spanish | maestría (artistry, masterliness, skill), superioridad (higher, odds, superiority), dominio tenso (catchup, fief, grip, handgrip), autoridad (authority, control, pomp, power, pundit, rule, say so, weight). (various references) | |
Swedish | sakkunskap (competence, expertness, know how, know-how), herravälde (command, dominance, dominanse, domination, dominion, hegemony, hold, lordship). (various references) | |
Turkish | ustalık (art, artfulness, craftsmanship, deftness, dexterity, expertness, facility, feat, finesse, hand, handiness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, masterliness, mastership, perfection, proficiency, skill, sleight, subtility, subtlety, virtuosity, wizardry, workmanship), idare (admin, administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, thrift, wire), egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ussatlyk (know-how), ussaзylyk, зeperlik, зeperзilik (art). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | майстерність (address, art, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, feat, finesse, handicraft, mastership, neatness, proficiency, skill, workmanship), панування (ascendance, ascendancy, dominance, domination, grasp, predominance, predominancy, supremacy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thế thắng lợi sự tinh thông, thế hơn (dominance), sự sử dụng th nh thạo, sự nắm vững (grip), quyền lực (attribution, authority, control, dominion, force, lordship, mastership, power), quyền l m chủ ưu thế. (various references) | |
Welsh | meistrolaeth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arbitrio, arbitrium, dominatio, dominatione, dominationem, dominationemque, dominationes, dominationis, dominatus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | dangier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PaV de o agwnizomenoV panta egkrateuetai ekeinoi men oun ina fqarton stefanon labwsin hmeiV de afqarton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnis autem qui in agone contendit ab omnibus se abstinet et illi quidem ut corruptibilem coronam accipiant nos autem incorruptam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ech man that stryueth in fiyt, absteyneth hym fro alle thingis; and thei, that thei take a corruptible coroun, but we an vncorrupt. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Euery man yt proveth masteryes abstaineth from all thinges. And they do it to obtayne a corruptible croune: but we to obtayne an vncorruptible croune: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown. |
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| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Ang matag-usa ka magdudula nagabatasan sa pagpugong sa iyang kaugalingon labut sa tanang mga butang. Sila nagahimo niini aron sa pagdaug sa usa ka purongpurong nga madunot ra, apan kita aron sa pagdaug sa dili madunot. |
| Chinese | 凡 較 力 爭 勝 的 、 諸 事 都 有 節 制 ． 他 們 不 過 是 要 得 能 壞 的 冕 ． 我 們 卻 是 要 得 不 能 壞 的 冕 。 |
| Croatian | Svaki natjecatelj sve moguæe izdržava; oni da dobiju raspadljiv vijenac, mi neraspadljiv. |
| Danish | Enhver, som deltager i Kamplegene, er afholdende i alt; hine nu vel for at få en forkrænkelig Krans, men vi en uforkrænkelig. |
| Dutch | En een iegelijk, die om prijs strijdt, onthoudt zich in alles. Dezen dan doen wel dit, opdat zij een verderfelijke kroon zouden ontvangen, maar wij een onverderfelijke. |
| Finnish | Mutta jokainen kilpailija noudattaa itsensähillitsemistä kaikessa; he saadakseen vain katoavaisen seppeleen, mutta me katoamattoman. |
| French | Tous ceux qui combattent s`imposent toute espèce d`abstinences, et ils le font pour obtenir une couronne corruptible; mais nous, faisons-le pour une couronne incorruptible. |
| German | Ein jeglicher aber, der da kämpft, enthält sich alles Dinges; jene also, daß sie eine vergängliche Krone empfangen, wir aber eine unvergängliche. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setiap orang yang sedang dalam latihan, menahan diri dalam segala hal. Ia melakukan itu karena ia ingin dikalungi dengan karangan bunga kejuaraan, yaitu bunga yang segera akan layu. Tetapi kita ini menahan diri dalam segala hal karena kita ingin dikalungi dengan karangan bunga yang tidak akan layu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiap-tiap orang perlawanan yang memahirkan diri di dalam permainan, bertahan di dalam segala sesuatu; mereka itu akan beroleh suatu makota yang akan binasa, tetapi kita ini beroleh suatu makota yang tiada akan binasa. |
| Maori | Na ko nga tangata katoa e whakataetae ana i nga takaro e whakakoromaki ana i nga hiahia katoa. Na e pera ana ratou kia whiwhi ai ki te karauna pirau; ko tatou ia ki te mea e kore e pirau. |
| Norwegian | Hver som er med i veddekamp, er avholdende i alt, hine for å få en forgjengelig krans, men vi en uforgjengelig. |
| Rumanian | Toyi ceice se luptq la jocurile de obwte, se supun la tot felul de knfrknqri. Wi ei fac lucrul acesta ca sq capete o cununq, care se poate vesteji: noi sq facem lucrul acesta pentru o cununq, care nu se poate vesteji. |
| Russian | чУЕ П"ЧЙЦОЙЛЙ ЧПЪ"ЕТЦЙЧБАФУС ПФ ЧУЕЗП: ФЕ "МС ПМХЮЕОЙС ЧЕО"Б ФМЕООПЗП, Б НЩ--ОЕФМЕООПЗП. |
| Shuar | Shuar nakurak nekapnaisatin ainia nuka nupetmaktaj Tákunka Ashí itit awajea nuna ikiuiniawai. Iisha Núnisrik nu Enentáijiai Yusna nu takastiniaitji. Nakuruinia nu shuar awakmakun tawasap Súsatniua nuna achikiarsha Nú tawaspan Wárik kajinmatkimniaiti. Antsu Yus iin amastatjinia Nú tawasap tuke amuukashtatui. |
| Spanish | Y todo aquel que lucha se disciplina en todo. Ellos lo hacen para recibir una corona corruptible; nosotros, en cambio, para una incorruptible. |
| Swahili | Wanariadha hujipa mazoezi na nidhamu kali; hufanya hivyo ili wajipatie taji iharibikayo! Lakini sisi twafanya hivyo tupate taji ya kudumu daima. |
| Swedish | Men alla som vilja deltaga i en sådan tävlan pålägga sig återhållsamhet i alla stycken: dessa för att vinna en förgänglig segerkrans, men vi för att vinna en oförgänglig. |
| Uma | Tauna to motanta' toera, wori' nyala palia-ra, pai' -ra mpengkatarii butu nyala-na, apa' doko' mpu'u-ra mporata parasee. Parasee toe, wunga to molaju-wadi mpai'. Hiaa' kita', tapengkatarii butu nyala-na apa' mehina-ta mporata parasee to tida duu' kahae-hae-na. |
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Misspellings | |
"Mastery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amestrey, amster, astery, castery, Maasberg, maaster, Mactay, Magstore, Maitrey, Majstey, mashery, masster, mastern, mastur, Matsuri, Matsuyo, Mauteby, Mcaister, Mcsherry, mestre, mistery, mistrey, Mistry, mozzery, mustery, Nasery, natery, pastery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mastery" (pronounced ma"sterē) |
| 4 | -s t er ē | blustery, history, mystery, protohistory, upholstery. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, alimentary, artery, battery, buttery, complimentary, contradictory, coterie, directory, jittery, documentary, eatery, effrontery, factory, flattery, glittery, introductory, lottery, notary, olfactory, parliamentary, peremptory, perfunctory, pottery, premonitory, rectory, refractory, rotary, rudimentary, satisfactory, sedimentary, splintery, supplementary, testamentary, trajectory, unsatisfactory, valedictory, victory, watery. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: streamy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: armets, estray, master, maters, mateys, matres, mayest, ramets, smarty, smeary, stayer, steamy, stream, tamers, yarest. | |
-2 letters: armet, artsy, aster, etyma, eyras, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matey, mayst, meats, meaty, ramet, rates, reams, resay, satem, satyr, sayer, seamy, smart, smear, stare, steam, stray, tamer, tames, tares, teams, tears, teary, terms, trams. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: masterly. | |
+2 letters: asymmetry, erythemas, martyries, monastery, oysterman, paymaster, spymaster, tyramines, vestryman, yawmeters. | |
+3 letters: ambrotypes, astrometry, asymmetric, dynamiters, macrocytes, martyrizes, mythmakers, paymasters, repayments, segmentary, spymasters, sympatries, yardmaster. | |
+4 letters: asymmetries, axisymmetry, erythremias, erythrismal, gastrectomy, heartsomely, macrophytes, masterfully, mayoralties, methylators, prepayments, sedimentary, semiaridity, symmetrical, sympathizer, trypanosome, tryptamines, yardmasters. | |
+5 letters: amateurishly, asymmetrical, axisymmetric, bathymetries, chrestomathy, compensatory, cryptomerias, demonstrably, dynamometers, erythematous, hemihydrates, hypermarkets, hypothermias, isothermally, macrocytoses, meristically, overpayments, spermatocyte, stonemasonry, sympathizers, systematizer, testamentary, tetrahymenas, tracheostomy, trypanosomes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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