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maisters

maisters is the genitive of maister.

maisters is the plural of maister.

maisters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maister.

Meaning of maister

Verb

maister (third-person singular simple present maisters, present participle maistering, simple past and past participle maistered)

  1. (dialectal) To master; to gain control over.
    • D'ye think I am to be John Tamson's man, and maistered by women a' the days o' my life ?1851, Sir Walter Scott, The Tale of Old Mortality

Questions about maisters

What is maisters the genitive of?
Maisters is the genitive of maister.

Words near maisters in the dictionary

  1. Maisons-Alfort
  2. maist
  3. maister
  4. maistered
  5. maistering
  6. maisters
  7. maistery
  8. maistre
  9. maistred
  10. Maistrenko
  11. maistres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maisters (page history and authors); maister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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