How do you use the word "master" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "master": It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years. You are the master of your own destiny.

Master Meaning

/ˈmɑːs.tə/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounSomeone who has control over something or someone.

nounThe owner of an animal or slave.

Sentence Examples

It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.

You are the master of your own destiny.

They lived in fear of their master.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

main important lord

Antonyms:

unimportant

CEFR Practice Quiz

The chess tournament was won by a true ____ who never lost a game.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

It takes years of dedicated practice to ____ a complex musical instrument like the cello.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistrebor. ▲ Latin magisterder. Old English mǣġester Middle English maister English master From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (as in magnus (“great”), also cognate of English much and mickle) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"We are masters of the sea." — 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides:

"Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law." — 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:

"When I have thus made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas […]." — 1712 November 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, November 13, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 535; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 97:

"The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:

"Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three—" — 1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Mary Gloster:

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