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- "Masters" redirects here. For a surname, see Masters (surname)
Master or Masters are terms denoting some kind of rank or status, and may refer to:
[edit] Ranks and titles
- Master craftsman in the Medieval guilds
- Master (form of address), a title used for young boys in formal correspondence
- Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
- Master (college), head of a college
- Chess master, a rank of chess player
- Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
- Master (naval), a former naval rank
- Master, the Captain of a ship
- Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
- Master of Ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance.
- Old Master, a term for a recognised Western painter active before about 1800
- Master (martial arts)
- Schoolmaster, presiding officer of a school
[edit] Arts and entertainment
- Masters athletics (track and field), a competition age classification used by many sports
- Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
- Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
- Masters (snooker), a snooker tournament
- Masters football, a football league in Britain contested by retired footballing legends
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the second tier of men's tennis, comprising nine annual tournaments
- ATP World Tour Finals, a tennis tournament, used to be called Tennis Masters Cup
- Winmau World Masters, the world's oldest darts tournament
- Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
[edit] Other uses
- Master recording, the original of a visual or sound recording
- Sega Master System, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console
- List of Battle Arena Toshinden characters#Master, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
- Master Lock, a brand of padlock
- Renault Master, a van
- Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
- The Masters School, an independent school in New York
- Master (BDSM), the dominant partner in a relationship
- Miles M.9 Master, a British 2-seat monoplane advanced trainer built by Miles Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.
- Masters Home Improvement, an Australian Home Improvement Retailer.
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