Master or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
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Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
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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 h ...
, National Master, International Master, FIDE Master, Candidate Master, all ranks of chess player
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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
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Grand master (order), a title denoting the head of an order or knighthood
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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 certa ...
, the head of a Grand Lodge and the highest rank of a Masonic organization
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Maestro
Maestro (; from the Italian ''wikt:maestro#Italian, maestro'' , meaning "wikt:master, 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 ...
, 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
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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, Colleges within universities in the United Kingdom, principally in the United Kingdom.
The actual tit ...
, head of a college
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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), b ...
, an English honorific for boys and young men
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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 th ...
, a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
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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
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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
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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
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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 mas ...
, in the Medieval guilds
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Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance
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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 physical ...
, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
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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
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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 du ...
, reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
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, a term for a recognised Western painter active before circa 1800
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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 B ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 Aermacchi ...
, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
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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
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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 ...
, a van
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
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Master (''Manos''), the head villain in the horror movie ''Manos: The Hands of Fate''
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Masters (''The Tripods''), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's ''The Tripods'' trilogy
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Master (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''
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Master (''Master and Margarita''), a character from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel
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The Master (''Doctor Who''), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''
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''The Master'' (The Doctor Who Role Playing Game), a supplement for ''The Doctor Who Role-playing Game'' about The Doctor's nemesis
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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 p ...
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*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), ''Mario'' franchise, developed by Intelligent Systems and produced by Nintendo. It combines elements from the role-playing video game, role-playing, action-adventure, a ...
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*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
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐf ...
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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 animation, 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 ...
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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 ...
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Films
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''Master'' (1997 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
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''Master'' (2016 film), a South Korean film
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''Master'' (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
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''Master'' (2022 film), an American film
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''The Master'' (1980 film), a Hong Kong film
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''The Master'' (1992 film), a Hong Kong film
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''The Master'' (2005 film), a Polish film
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''The Master'' (2009 film), a Turkish film
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''The Master'' (2012 film), an American film
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''The Master'' (2015 film), a Chinese film
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''The Master'' (2016 film), a computer animated Lego short
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''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 Theod