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ringmaster

ringmaster noun: the person who manages the performers in a circus ring.

Noun

ringmaster (plural ringmasters)

  1. The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
  2. (Internet) The person who maintains a webring.
    • Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100
    • Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming

Verb

ringmaster (third-person singular simple present ringmasters, present participle ringmastering, simple past and past participle ringmastered)

  1. To act as ringmaster.
  2. (figuratively) To control (a group of people).

ringmaster meaning in Tamil and Kannada

ringmaster in Tamil

விலங்கு சாகச மேலாளர்

ringmaster in Kannada

ಸರ್ಕಸ್ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನದ ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕ

Forms of ringmaster

Noun
pluralringmasters
Verb
third-person singular presentringmasters
present participleringmastering
past participleringmastered
pastringmastered

Origin of ringmaster

From ring + master.

Words formed from ringmaster

Questions about ringmaster

What does ringmaster mean?
Ringmaster means the person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
What is ringmaster in Tamil?
Ringmaster in Tamil is விலங்கு சாகச மேலாளர். See Ringmaster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ringmaster?
Ringmaster can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of ringmaster?
The plural of ringmaster is ringmasters.

Words near ringmaster in the dictionary

  1. ringling
  2. ringmail
  3. ringmails
  4. ringmaking
  5. ringman
  6. ringmaster
  7. ringmastered
  8. ringmastering
  9. ringmasterly
  10. ringmasters
  11. ringmastership

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ringmaster (page history and authors); ringmaster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ringmaster (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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