MASTERS

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• MASTERS (noun)
  The noun MASTERS has 1 sense:

1. United States poet (1869-1950)

  Familiarity information: MASTERS used as a noun is very rare.

• MASTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States poet (1869-1950)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edgar Lee Masters; Masters

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

Your squires are doubtless worthy the fame of their masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"So long as we are among the thick trees these swine are our masters," said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the dwarf said, “My masters are not at home; but if you will wait till they come, pray step in.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The slaves were their own masters.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I'm one of the masters at Salem House,” he said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had been with me for two years, and came with the best references, but he was a silent, morose man, not very popular either with masters or boys.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are my masters. I am their man.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But my spirit masters the trembling flesh and the qualms of the mind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)