"mastery" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɑːs.t(ə.)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmæs.tɚ.i/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-mastery.wav [UK] Forms: masteries [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English maistery, maistrie, mastere, mastry, from Old French maistrie, equivalent to master + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|maistery}} Middle English maistery, {{m|enm|maistrie}} maistrie, {{m|enm|mastere}} mastere, {{m|enm|mastry}} mastry, {{der|en|fro|maistrie}} Old French maistrie, {{suf|en|master|y}} master + -y Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} mastery (usually uncountable, plural masteries)
  1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (position or authority of a master): վարպետություն (varpetutʿyun) (Armenian), vláda [feminine] (Czech), nadvláda [feminine] (Czech), hallinta (Finnish), määräysvalta (Finnish), mestría [feminine] (Galician), potestas [feminine] (Latin), mast (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-6XstiDTm Disambiguation of 'position or authority of a master': 94 1 2 1 1 1
  2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (superiority in war or competition): hallinta (Finnish), ylivoima (Finnish), mestría [feminine] (Galician)
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-6WtvCkcE Disambiguation of 'superiority in war or competition': 18 60 0 19 1 2
  3. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (act or process of mastering, expertise): վարպետություն (varpetutʿyun) (Armenian), mistrovství [neuter] (Czech), hallinta (Finnish), maîtrise [feminine] (French), mestría [feminine] (Galician), padronanza [feminine] (Italian), maestria [feminine] (Italian), mestring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), maestria [feminine] (Portuguese), dominio [masculine] (Spanish), mast (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-yqgnggoD Disambiguation of 'act or process of mastering, expertise': 4 2 87 2 3 2
  4. (obsolete) A contest for superiority. Tags: obsolete, uncountable, usually Translations (contest for superiority): valtataistelu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-bpZF8xFk Disambiguation of 'contest for superiority': 20 17 0 61 0 1
  5. (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat. Tags: obsolete, uncountable, usually Translations (masterly operation): майсторство (majstorstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), huippusuoritus (Finnish), maineteko (Finnish), uroteko (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-1JNGONNl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 6 30 4 45 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 4 11 24 11 39 10 Disambiguation of 'masterly operation': 2 3 1 0 90 3
  6. (obsolete) The philosopher's stone. Tags: obsolete, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-mastery-en-noun-tT7fK~sg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: masterie [obsolete] Derived forms: flipped mastery, mastery learning, self-mastery Related terms: master

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          "ref": "1516, Robert Fabyan, New cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce",
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          "text": "By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.",
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          "supremacy",
          "supremacy"
        ],
        [
          "superiority",
          "superiority"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "victory",
          "victory"
        ],
        [
          "triumph",
          "triumph"
        ],
        [
          "preeminence",
          "preeminence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 484",
          "text": "At Tebay however, he began to get the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "expertise",
          "expertise"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britain Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, page 596",
          "text": "[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, John Clayton, The Anger of the North, page 69",
          "text": "Rury has given the word for some rare sport — a bout of games and masteries between me and Marcos Serkman to prove which is the better man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Delphian Society, “Delphian Text”, in Paolo and Francesca, volume 7, page 441",
          "text": "Come, Paolo, we two have never held / A mastery between us — tell me out!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contest for superiority."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ],
        [
          "superiority",
          "superiority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A contest for superiority."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1516, Robert Fabyan, New cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce",
          "text": "Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1546, John Bale, The actes of Englysh votaryes",
          "text": "That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1592, Angell Day, The English secretorie",
          "text": "By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, John Stephen Farmer, “Thersites”, in Six Anonymous Plays, page 212",
          "text": "Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Selwyn Image, “The Serious Art of Thomas Rowlandson”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 14, page 12",
          "text": "To accomplish this is a great mastery, a rare mastery: but it is an accomplishment that seems to have been Rowlandson's easily whenever he would.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, John Merrill Davis, Striving for Masteries and Other Baccalaureate Sermons, page 5",
          "text": "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A masterly operation; a feat."
      ],
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        [
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          "masterly"
        ],
        [
          "feat",
          "feat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The philosopher's stone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosopher's stone",
          "philosopher's stone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The philosopher's stone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈmɑːs.t(ə.)ɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæs.tɚ.i/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    }
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      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "masterie"
    }
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "varpetutʿyun",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "word": "վարպետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vláda"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nadvláda"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "word": "hallinta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "word": "määräysvalta"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mestría"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "potestas"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "position or authority of a master",
      "word": "mast"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "superiority in war or competition",
      "word": "hallinta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "superiority in war or competition",
      "word": "ylivoima"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "superiority in war or competition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mestría"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "contest for superiority",
      "word": "valtataistelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "majstorstvo",
      "sense": "masterly operation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "майсторство"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "masterly operation",
      "word": "huippusuoritus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "masterly operation",
      "word": "maineteko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "masterly operation",
      "word": "uroteko"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "varpetutʿyun",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "word": "վարպետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "mistrovství"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "word": "hallinta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maîtrise"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mestría"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "padronanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maestria"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mestring"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maestria"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dominio"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
      "word": "mast"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mastery"
}

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