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Meister

German, noun

Meister is spelled M-E-I-S-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 71 times per million words in written German, the 1,205th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meister is a German masculine noun meaning “master” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, meister is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular superlative degree”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gewerblich-technische Meister seines Fachs, der seinerseits einen angehenden Gesellen oder Facharbeiter…”.

What does Meister mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemaster

  2. 2

    masculinechampion

adjective

as meister
  1. 1

    masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular superlative degree

  2. 2

    femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular superlative degree

  3. 3

    strong genitive plural superlative degree

adjective

as meister
  1. 1

    masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular

  2. 2

    femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular

  3. 3

    strong genitive plural

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. gewerblich-technische Meister seines Fachs, der seinerseits einen angehenden Gesellen oder Facharbeiter ausbilden darf 2. solche Person männlichen Geschlechts 3. Bezeichnung und Anrede für eine Person mit besonderen Fähigkeiten 4. wenn diese Schüler ausbildet; ehrende Anrede eines Schülers derselben

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Meister

  • Meisters genitive
  • Meisterin feminine
  • Meistern dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Meister

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Meister in German?

Meister appears 71 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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