listmaster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A village bureaucrat responsible for maintaining lists such as census, inventory of village assets, etc, and sometimes for overseeing public distributions.
Example Sentences
- "If an account subscribed to your mailing list ceases to exist, you'll get e-mail to the listmaster for that specific mailing list after every single post that goes out to the list, telling you that particular account no longer exists. You'll definitely want to remove this user from the list."
- "The script will first ask you to submit an address for the list server's administrator, or "listmaster.""
- "Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality."
- "The reports were as follows: John Christopher Gerlach, listmaster of Elizabeth Town, reported the inhabitants to be forty-two families, — one hundred and forty-six persons; […]"
- "Two of the seven listmasters had been soldiers in Europe. Johann Conrad Weiser had served as a corporal in the Württemberg Blue Dragoons."
- "One of the ladies said, “Herr Conrad Weiser is a good listmaster for us. He used to be a corporal in the military, you know. Very smart man.”"