How to spell master

hear itmas·ter/'mæstər/nounRules and real life

What it means: An expert or authority in a field.

In a sentence: The magician became a master of amazing tricks.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as masterr or masster.

Same family: mastery, masterful, masterpiece, grandmaster, mastermind. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Master comes from Old English 'mægester' and Latin 'magister', meaning 'chief' or 'teacher.' The same Latin root also gave us words like 'magistrate' and 'maestro.'

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