Master
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Master, masters and the Master may refer to:
Ranks and titles
- Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
- Master (college), head of a college
- Schoolmaster, presiding officer of a school
- Master (form of address), a title used for boys and young men, in formal correspondence
- Dharma master, an honorific title for Buddhist monks and nuns
- Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
- Master (martial arts)
- Master (naval), a former naval rank
- Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Chess master, a rank of chess player
- Master, the Captain of a ship
- Master craftsman in the Medieval guilds
- Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
- Master of Ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance.
- Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Theosophy), reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
- Old Master, a term for a recognised Western painter active before about 1800
- Station master, formerly the person in charge of railway stations
- Venerable Master, the master of a French freemasonic lodge
- Worshipful Master, the governing authority over a Masonic Lodge
Fictional characters
- Master (Manos), the head villain in the horror movie Manos: The Hands of Fate
- Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
- Master of the Land of Fiction, a villain from the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber
- Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Master (Fallout), a character in the computer game Fallout (video game)
- The Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
- The Master, the player's character in the SNES game ActRaiser and its follow-up ActRaiser 2
- The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in Paper Mario
- The Master, a title character in the novel The Master and Margarita
- The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from Power Rangers Mystic Force
- The Master, a character from the adult swim television series The Venture Bros.
- Master, a character from Master and Margarita novel by Bulgakov
Film and television
- Master (film), a 1997 Telugu-language film
- Masters (film), a 2011 Malayalam thriller
- The Master (1980 film), directed by Lu Chin Ku
- The Master (1989 film), directed by Tsui Hark
- The Master (1995 film), a Syrian documentary film by Omar Amiralay
- The Master (2005 film), directed by Piotr Trzaskalski
- The Master (2009 film), a Turkish film
- The Master (2012 film), a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Master (2015 film), a Chinese film directed by Xu Haofeng
- The Master (Australian quiz show), a 2006 Australian quiz show
- The Master (Indonesia TV series), a 2009 magic show Television series
- The Master (TV series), a 1984 television series starring Lee Van Cleef
Literature
- The Master, an 1895 best-selling novel by Israel Zangwill
- The Masters (novel), a 1951 novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence by C. P. Snow
- The Master: An Adventure Story, a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White
- The Master (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín
Music and audio
- Master (American band), a Czech-American death metal band
- Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
- Master (Doctor Who audio), a Doctor Who audio drama
- The Master (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye
- The Master (album), a 1999 album by Rakim
- The nickname of Bojan Adamič, a Slovene film score, jazz and pop composer
Sport
- Australian Masters, an Australian golf tournament
- Masters athletics, a competition age classification used by many sports
- Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
- The Masters (darts), a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation
- Masters football, a football league in Britain contested by retired footballing legends
- Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
- Masters (snooker), a prestigious tournament held in London
- Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
- Winmau World Masters, the world's oldest darts tournament
- "Master Masami" Hirosaka, Japanese radio-controlled racer
- The Master, wrestler King Curtis Iaukea's name held in 1995.
Tennis
- ATP World Tour Finals (used to be called Tennis Masters Cup), the season ending men's professional tennis tournament
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000, a series of prominent mid-season tennis events on the men's professional tour
- WTA Tour Championships, season ending women's professional tour tournament; sometimes informally called "Masters" in analogy of the men's year-end event.
Other uses
- Master, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Master recording, the original of a visual or sound recording
- master-slave paradigm in technology and computing
- Sega Master System, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console
- Master Lock, a brand of padlock
- Renault Master, a van
- Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
- The Masters School, an independent school in New York
- Master (BDSM), the dominant partner in a relationship
- Miles M.9 Master, a British 2-seat monoplane advanced trainer built by Miles Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War
- Masters Home Improvement, an Australian Home Improvement Retailer
- List of Battle Arena Toshinden characters#Master, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
See also
- Grandmaster (disambiguation)
- Maestro (disambiguation)
- Masters (surname)
- Marsters (surname)
- Meister (surname)
- Miss (disambiguation)
- Mister (disambiguation)
- Mistress (disambiguation)
- Metal Master (disambiguation)
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