Master or masters may refer to:

Ranks or titles

* Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *

Grandmaster (chess) Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally it has ...

, National Master, International Master, FIDE Master, Candidate Master, all ranks of chess player *

Grandmaster (martial arts) Grandmaster and Master are titles used to describe or address some senior or experienced martial artists. Typically these titles are honorary in nature, meaning that they do not confer rank, but rather distinguish the individual as very highly re ...

or Master, an honorary title * Grand master (order), a title denoting the head of an order or knighthood *

Grand Master (Freemasonry) A Grand Master is a title of honour as well as an office in Freemasonry, given to a freemason elected to oversee a Masonic jurisdiction, derived from the office of Grand Masters in chivalric orders. He presides over a Grand Lodge and has cert ...

, the head of a Grand Lodge and the highest rank of a Masonic organization *

Maestro Maestro (; from the Italian ''maestro'' , meaning " master" or "teacher") is an honorific title of respect (plural: maestros or maestri). The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiqu ...

, an orchestral conductor, or the master within some other musical discipline *Master, a title of Jesus in the New Testament *Master or shipmaster, the

sea captain A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.3. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficie ...

of a merchant vessel *

Master (college) A master (more generically called a head of house or head of college) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom. The actual title of the head of a college varies widely between i ...

, head of a college *

Master (form of address) Master is an English honorific for boys and young men. Etymology ''Master'' was used in England for men of some rank, especially "free masters" of a trade guild and by any manual worker or servant employee addressing his employer (his master), ...

, an English honorific for boys and young men *

Master (judiciary) A master is a judge of limited jurisdiction in the superior courts of England and Wales and in numerous other jurisdictions based on the common law tradition. A master's jurisdiction is generally confined to civil proceedings and is a subset of t ...

, a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions *

Master mariner A master mariner is a licensed mariner who holds the highest grade of seafarer qualification; namely, an unlimited master's license. Such a license is labelled ''unlimited'' because it has no limits on the tonnage, power, or geographic location of ...

, a licensed mariner who is qualified to be a sea captain in the merchant marine *

Master (naval) The master, or sailing master, is a historical rank for a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel. The rank can be equated to a professional seaman and specialist in navigation, rather than as a military ...

, a former naval rank *

Master (Peerage of Scotland) The heir apparent or heir presumptive to a Scottish peerage is known as a Master, or a Mistress if the heir is female. The heir's style is "The Master of eerage or "The Mistress of eerage. If the master is an heir apparent, and the peerage has ...

, the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland *

Master craftsman Historically, a master craftsman or master tradesman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster) was a member of a guild. The title survives as the highest professional qualification in craft industries. In the European guild system, only mast ...

, in the Medieval guilds * Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance *

Master-at-arms A Master-at-Arms (US: MA; UK & some Commonwealth: MAA) may be a naval rating, responsible for law enforcement, regulating duties, security, anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) for/of a country's navy; an army officer responsible for physica ...

, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy *

Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline *

Masters of the Ancient Wisdom The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom are claimed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, Alfred Percy Sinnett, and others. These Theosophists claimed to have met some of The Masters ...

, reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society *

Old Master In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")Old Masters De ...

, a term for a recognised Western painter active before circa 1800 *

Schoolmaster The word schoolmaster, or simply master, refers to a male school teacher. This usage survives in British independent schools, both secondary and preparatory, and a few Indian boarding schools (such as The Doon School) that were modelled after ...

or master, presiding officer of a school *Slave owner, an owner of victims of

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

Station master The station master (or stationmaster) is the person in charge of a railway station, particularly in the United Kingdom and many other countries outside North America. In the United Kingdom, where the term originated, it is now largely historical ...

, formerly the person in charge of railway stations *Worshipful Master, the senior

Masonic lodge officer In Craft Freemasonry, sometimes known as Blue Lodge Freemasonry, every Masonic lodge elects or appoints Masonic lodge officers to execute the necessary functions of the lodge's life and work. The precise list of such offices may vary between the j ...

Zen master Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorizat ...

, a somewhat vague English term, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices

Aircraft and vehicles

Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master The Aermacchi M-346 Master is a family of military twin-engine transonic advanced jet trainers and light combat aircraft. Originally co-developed with Yakovlev as the Yak/AEM-130, the partnership was dissolved in 2000 and then Alenia Aermacch ...

, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft *

Miles Master The Miles M.9 Master was a British two-seat monoplane advanced trainer designed and built by aviation company Miles Aircraft Ltd. It was inducted in large numbers into both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during the Second Wor ...

, a British 2-seat training aircraft during the Second World War *

Renault Master The Renault Master is a large van produced by the French manufacturer Renault since 1980, now in its third generation. It replaced the earlier Renault Super Goélette light trucks. Opel has sold versions of the second and third series vans as t ...

, a van

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Master (''Manos''), the head villain in the horror movie ''Manos: The Hands of Fate'' * Masters (''The Tripods''), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's ''The Tripods'' trilogy * Master (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' * Master (''Master and Margarita''), a character from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel * The Master (''Doctor Who''), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' ** ''The Master'' (The Doctor Who Role Playing Game), a supplement for ''The Doctor Who Role-playing Game'' about The Doctor's nemesis * The Master (''Fallout''), a character in the 1997 video game ''Fallout'' *The Master, a nickname for

Ancient One The Ancient One is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was the mentor of Doctor Strange and was his predecessor as Sorcerer Supreme. The character was voiced by Michael Ansara in the 1978 telev ...

(Marvel Comics) *The Master, the player's character in the Nintendo game series ''

ActRaiser is a 1990 hybrid platformer, god game, and city-building game with light action RPG elements for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Quintet and published by Enix, combining traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban pl ...

'' *The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in ''

Paper Mario ''Paper Mario'' is a video game series and part of the ''Mario'' franchise, developed by Intelligent Systems and produced by Nintendo. It combines elements from the role-playing, action-adventure, and puzzle genres. Players control a paper c ...

'' *The Master, a title character in the novel ''

The Master and Margarita ''The Master and Margarita'' (russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. A censored version, with several chapters cut by ...

'' * The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from ''Power Rangers Mystic Force'' *The Master, a character from the adult swim television series ''

The Venture Bros. ''The Venture Bros.'' is an American adult animated action comedy TV series created by Chris McCulloch (also known as "Jackson Publick") for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. Following a pilot episode on February 16, 20 ...

'' * The Master, character in the manga series ''

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Take. It has been serialized through Niconico Seiga's ''Dra Dra Sharp'' website since December 2017 and collected in nine ''tankōbon'' volumes by Fujimi Shobo as of September 2022. In No ...

Films

* ''Master'' (1997 film), an Indian Telugu-language film * ''Master'' (2016 film), a South Korean film * ''Master'' (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film * ''Master'' (2022 film), an American film * ''The Master'' (1980 film), a Hong Kong film * ''The Master'' (1992 film), a Hong Kong film * ''The Master'' (2005 film), a Polish film * ''The Master'' (2009 film), a Turkish film * ''The Master'' (2012 film), an American film * ''The Master'' (2015 film), a Chinese film * ''The Master'' (2016 film), a computer animated Lego short * ''Masters'' (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language film

Literature

*''The Master'', an 1895 best-selling novel by

Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill (21 January 18641 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine (regio ...

* ''The Masters'' (novel), a 1951 novel in the ''Strangers and Brothers'' sequence by C. P. Snow *'' The Master: An Adventure Story'', a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White * ''The Master'' (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín

Music and audio

Mastering (audio) Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via met ...

, a process resulting in a master recording, also known as a master, master copy, or master tape * ''Master'' (soundtrack), 2020 soundtrack album to the 2021 Tamil-language film ''Master'' * ''Master'' (score), 2021 film score to the 2021 Tamil-language film ''Master'' *

Master (American band) Master is an American death metal band led by Paul Speckmann. Originally formed in Chicago, the band later relocated to Uherské Hradiště, Czechia. History The group was originally formed by Speckmann in 1983 as Death Strike, after the dem ...

, a Czech-American death metal band *

Master (Russian band) Master () is a Russian thrash metal band founded in 1987 by former members of Aria (band), Aria. History In 1987, Alik Granovsky, Andrey Bolshakov, Kirill Pokrovsky, and Igor Molchanov left the heavy metal band Aria (band), Aria, due to thei ...

, a Russian thrash metal band * Bojan Adamič (1912–1995), known as Master, Slovene music composer * ''Yeah Yeah Yeahs'' (EP), a 2001 record by ''Yeah Yeah Yeahs'', this EP also called "Master" * ''Master'' (album of Russian band Master), a 1987 album by Russian thrash metal band ''Master'' * ''Master'' (album of American band Master), a 1990 album by American band ''Master'' * ''Master'' (audio drama), in the ''Doctor Who'' series (2003) * ''The Master'' (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye *''The Master'', 2010 box set by

Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...

* ''The Master...'' (Pepper Adams album) (1980) * ''The Master'' (Jimmy Raney album) (1983) * ''The Master'' (Rakim album) (1999) * ''The Master'' (Stan Getz album), recorded 1975, released 1982 *''The Masters'', compilation album by

The Stranglers The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have origina ...

Television and film

*An

original camera negative The original camera negative (OCN) is the film in a traditional film-based movie camera which captures the original image. This is the film from which all other copies will be made. It is known as raw stock prior to exposure. The size of a roll ...

, or other film print, duplicated or digitized to produce release prints and remasters * ''The Master'' (U.S. TV series), a 1984 American television series starring Lee Van Cleef that aired on NBC * ''The Master'' (Australian game show), a 2006 Australian quiz show that aired on Seven Network * ''The Master'' (Indonesian TV series), a 2009 Indonesian magic show television series

People

Masami Hirosaka is a Japanese radio controlled car driver who is considered to be the world's most successful with a record fourteen IFMAR World Championships in 1/12 scale electric, 1/10 scale Pan, 1/10 scale 2WD off road and 1/10 scale 4WD, all electric. Hiro ...

(born 1966), known as Master Masami, Japanese radio-controlled racer *

King Curtis Iaukea Curtis Piehau Iaukea III (September 15, 1937 – December 4, 2010) was an American professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as a single and in vario ...

(1937–2010), wrestler, ring name The Master

Places

Master, Iran Master ( fa, ماستر, also Romanized as Māster and Māstar; also known as Moassar) is a village in Talkh Ab Rural District, Khenejin District, Farahan County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ...

, a village in Markazi Province, Iran *

Masters, Colorado Masters is an extinct town in Weld County, Colorado, Weld County, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. History A post office called Masters was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1967. The co ...

, USA; a ghost town in the United States

Schools

Graduate school Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. The organization and struc ...

, for obtaining Cycle II Tertiary Education (Master's degree) * Master's Academy & College, Canadian school in Calgary, Alberta *

Masters School The Masters School (colloquially known as Masters), is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its campus is located north of New York City in the Hudson Valley in Westches ...

, an American independent school in New York

Sport

Golf

Masters Tournament The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, the Masters is the first maj ...

, known as The Masters, one of the four men's major championships *

Australian Masters The Australian Masters was an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia held in Victoria, Australia from 1979 to 2015. History In 1989 the International Management Group took control of the management of the tournament. Though t ...

, a golf tournament held in Australia *

British Masters The Betfred British Masters is a professional golf tournament. It was founded in 1946 as the Dunlop Masters and was held every year up to 2008, except for 1984. Dunlop's sponsorship ended in 1982, and the name sponsor changed frequently therea ...

, a golf tournament held in the United Kingdom *

South African Masters The South African Masters was one of the most prestigious golf tournaments on the Sunshine Tour. It was last played in 2011. Before its discontinuation, it had a prize fund of 1.2 million rand and was held at the Wild Coast Sun Country Club on t ...

, a golf tournament held in South Africa

Tennis

ATP World Tour Finals The ATP Finals is the season-ending championship of the ATP Tour. It is the most significant event in the annual ATP calendar after the four majors as it features the top-eight singles players and top-eight doubles teams based on their results t ...

, the season-ending tournament on the ATP tour known in the past as The Masters (derived from 'Masters Grand Prix' and subsequently 'Tennis Masters Cup') *

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 The ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (previously known as ATP Masters Series) is an annual series of nine tennis tournaments featuring the top-ranked players on the ATP Tour. The series' events have been held in Europe and North America since the ...

, a series of top tier men's tennis tournaments on the ATP tour calendar

Other sports

Senior sport Senior sport (or masters sport or veteran sport) is an age category of sport, that usually contains age groups of those 35 and older. It may concern unaltered or adapted sport activities, with and without competitions. Competitions * World Masters ...

, a competition age classification used by many sports for older athletes **

Masters athletics Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair com ...

, competition in the sport of athletics by older athletes **

Masters cycling Masters cycling is an age category of cycle sport, cycling officially established by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1994. Competitions * ''World Masters Track Cycling Championships'' organized since 1997. * ''European Masters Cycling C ...

, competition in cycling by older athletes **

Masters Football Masters Football was a six-a-side indoor football competition in the United Kingdom, where players over the age of 35 were chosen by the Masters Football Selection Committee to represent a senior club for which they played. Regional heats were he ...

, six-a-side indoor football competition in UK for older athletes **

Masters Rugby League Masters Rugby League is a derivative of rugby league for a wide age range of older, semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials. Masters Rugby League started in Brisbane Australia (South East Queensland Masters Rugby League inc which is ...

, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials **

Masters swimming Masters swimming is a special class of competitive swimming for swimmers 25 years and older. Premasters is normally included as well, from 18 years old (Canada, United States and Australia) or 20 years old ( Europe). In Canada ten thousand swim ...

, competition in swimming by older athletes *

Masters (curling) The Masters is a Grand Slam event on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is the second Grand Slam event and first major on the women's and men's tour. The event is an amalgamation of the men's World Cup of Curling and the women's Sun ...

, an annual Grand Slam of Curling event *

Masters Cup (disc golf) The Masters Cup is an annual disc golf tournament held at DeLaveaga Disc Golf Course in Santa Cruz, California. The event features both amateur and professional divisions. The 23rd annual Masters Cup was held April 18–20 (amateur) and May 2–4 ( ...

, an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour *

Masters (darts) The Masters (also known as the Cazoo Masters for sponsorship purposes) is a non-ranking PDC darts tournament which features the top 24 darts players according to the PDC Order of Merit as of 2021. History The inaugural tournament, held in 2013, ...

, a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation *

Masters (snooker) The Masters is a professional invitational snooker tournament. Held every year since 1975, it is the second-longest running tournament behind the World Championship. It is one of the three Triple Crown events, and although not a ranking event ...

, professional invitational snooker tournament *

World Masters (darts) The World Masters is one of the longest-running and most prestigious of the BDO/WDF tournaments, which began in 1974. The tournament is sponsored by darts board manufacturer, Winmau. The World Masters was unusual in darts in that its sets are t ...

, professional darts tournament

Other uses

MASTER Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles *Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *Grandmaster (chess), National Master, ...

, a Russian network of telescopes * Master (software), pseudonym AlphaGo, artificial intelligence Computer Go program *

Master Lock Master Lock is an American company that develops padlocks, combination locks, safes, and related security products. Now a subsidiary of Fortune Brands Home & Security, Master Lock Company LLC was formed in 1921 by locksmith-inventor Harry E. ...

, a brand of padlock *

Master recording Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via met ...

, the original of a visual or sound recording *

Master/slave (BDSM) In BDSM, Master/slave, M/s or sexual slavery is a relationship in which one individual serves another in a consensual authority-exchange structured relationship. Unlike Dominant/submissive structures found in BDSM in which love is often the co ...

, consensual role-playing in a sexual relationship *

Master/slave (technology) Master/slave is a model of asymmetric communication or control where one device or process (the "master") controls one or more other devices or processes (the "slaves") and serves as their communication hub. In some systems, a master is selected ...

, a model of communication *

Masters Home Improvement Masters Home Improvement was an Australian home improvement chain operated by retailer Woolworths Limited. It was established as a way for Woolworths Limited to enter the hardware retail market, which has been historically dominated by Bunnings W ...

, an Australian Home Improvement Retailer *

Sega Master System The is an 8-bit History of video game consoles (third generation), third-generation home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was originally a remodeled export version of the Sega Mark III, the third iteration of the SG-1000 series of ...

, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console