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-meister

UK/ˈmaɪstə/US/ˈmaɪstɚ/

-meister suffix: an expert on the specified subject.

Suffix

-meister

  1. An expert on the specified subject.
  2. A person in charge of a specified thing.
  3. Attached to a person's name in humorous (or ironic) approbation.
    • The festival is something of a muso's paradise, with the Bobmeister General (you may know him as Geldof), former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman with his band The Rhythm Kings, Bernard Butler and Bert Jansch and Dublin-based electronic knob-twiddler Autamata all turning out. — "Galway Gets Festive", The...
    • But 2011 hasn’t started well for the Govemeister. [Reference to Michael Gove, then UK Secretary of State for Education] — engagedlearning.co.uk, January 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20150915001618/http://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=165

Origin of -meister

From meister, from German Meister (“master”, “champion”).

Questions about -meister

What does -meister mean?
-meister means an expert on the specified subject.
What part of speech is -meister?
-meister is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -meister?
-meister is pronounced /ˈmaɪstə/ (UK).

Words near -meister in the dictionary

  1. -maxxes
  2. -maxxing
  3. -me-
  4. -meal
  5. -megaly
  6. -meister
  7. -mel-
  8. -melia
  9. -men
  10. -ment
  11. -ments

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