mastery
/ˈmæs.tə.ɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops."
- "The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them."
- "They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill."
- "The voice of them that shout for mastery."
- "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things."
- "O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery."
Etymology
From Middle English maistery, maistrie, mastere, mastry, from Old French maistrie, equivalent to master + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmæs.tə.ɹi/
- British English: /ˈmɑː.stə.ɹi/