-meister

UK/ˈmaɪstə/US/ˈmaɪstɚ/

suffix

An expert on the specified subject.

OriginGerman Meister →
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Meanings

suffix
  1. An expert on the specified subject.
  2. A person in charge of a specified thing.
  3. Attached to a person's name in humorous (or ironic) approbation.

    But 2011 hasn’t started well for the Govemeister. [Reference to Michael Gove, then UK Secretary of State for Education] — engagedlearning.co.uk, January 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20150915001618/http://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=165

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    The festival is something of a muso's paradise, with the Bobmeister General (you may know him as Geldof), former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman with his band The Rhythm Kings, Bernard Butler and Bert Jansch and Dublin-based electronic knob-twiddler Autamata all turning out. — "Galway Gets Festive", The Irish Times, July 9, 2004 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/galway-gets-festive-1.1148459

Origin

  1. GermanMeister“master”, “champion”
  2. English-meister

From meister, from German Meister (“master”, “champion”).

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Cite this entry
APA

-meister. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-meister

MLA

“-meister.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-meister. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-meister,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-meister.

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