wordmaster

Noun

wordmaster (plural wordmasters)

1. One who is highly skilled as a speaker and/or writer.
   • My feelings are particularly strong about that piece of thinking the anti-union wordmasters have labeled “right to work” legislation.1957 May, George M[ichael] Leader, “Unions Must Be Secure”, in George Meany, editor, American Federationist, volume 64, number 5, Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor and Congress of...
   • Old Guitaron is a characteristically attractive Laurindo Almeida melody, for which lyrics were provided by the high potentate of the wordmasters, Johnny Mercer.1963, Leonard Feather, Softly, The Brazilian Sound, Warner Bros. Records Inc.
2. One who knows a lot of words or a lot about words.
   • As the students read the assembled articles on islands, have them note unfamiliar words and transcribe the sentences in which they appear. These are to be submitted to a pre-selected team of “wordmasters,” who will look up the words in the dictionary, select the appropriate meaning for each, then...1981, Starting Points in Reading: Level C/First Book, Teacher’s Guide, Ginn and Company, →ISBN, pages 68–69
   • Entitled Perplexx, this Scrabble look and play alike also pits wordmasters against a computer foe named Lexx.1986 October, Ted Salamone, “A Play on Words”, in MacUser, page 102