Masters of the Universe

Noun

Master of the Universe (plural Masters of the Universe)

1. God
   • Constantine inscribed these words on the pedestal:— Oh Christ! king and master of the universe, I consecrate this humble tower, this sceptre, and the power of Rome, to thee!1849, William Francis Lynch, Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea
2. (idiomatic) A powerful person.
   • First, by them made obstinate by the onetime masters of the universe.1557, Edgar Leoni, transl., Epistle to Henry II, translation of original by Nostradamus

   Synonyms:

   baron, big cheese, big enchilada, big gun, big kahuna, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, bigwig

3. (idiomatic) A highly successful business person.
   • The Masters of the Universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that his otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with. […] On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that. . . Masters of the Universe. There was . . . no...1987, Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 12

   Synonyms:

   baron, big cheese, big enchilada, big gun, big kahuna, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, bigwig