Definition of Master class

1. Noun. A class (especially in music) given to talented students by an expert.

Generic synonyms: Class, Course, Form, Grade

Definition of Master class

1. Noun. A class, typically in a performing art such as music or drama, in which a teacher listens to and critiques the performance of individual students, one at a time, while the other students look on. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Master Class

mastectomies
mastectomy
masted
master
master's
master's degree
master's degrees
master's theses
master's thesis
master-at-arms
master bedroom
master bedrooms
master cast
master chief petty officer
master chief petty officers
master copy
master cylinder
master data
master data management
master eye
master file
master gland
master glands
master key
master keys
master mariner
master mariners
master of ceremonies
master plan

Literary usage of Master class

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Civilisation in Scotland by John Mackintosh (1895)
"... the scholars they received at each of the four quarters of the year, and carry them on continuously till they were fit for entering the master's class. ..."

2. The Rise of the Working-class by Algernon Sidney Crapsey (1914)
"These men when they have at once escaped from their class condition become the most tyrannical of the master class. There is no one so cruel to the slave as ..."

3. Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems by Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, Albert Bushnell Hart, National Security League (1919)
"In this Society there is an antagonism of interests manifesting itself in a struggle between the master class and the working class, which struggle can only ..."

4. Selected Articles on the Compulsory Arbitration and Compulsory Investigation by Lamar Taney Beman (1920)
"Until the civil war the American master class maintained the right of ownership in human beings. It has not been long since railway employees favored legal ..."

5. Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884)
"The master class, fresh from the fields of a bloody war, with his musket strapped to his shoulder and the sharp thorn of ignominious defeat penetrating his ..."

6. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1867)
"The duties and responsibilities thrown by emancipation upon the master class were indisputably very great; but they were to be faithfully fulfilled, ..."

7. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"The lust, the passions, of the master-class act powerfully on the lust, the passions, of the slave-class, and those of the slave-class react not less nower- ..."

8. The Mexican People: Their Struggle for Freedom by Lazaro Gutierrez de Lara, Edgcumb Pinchon (1914)
"... II THE GENESIS OF THE MEXICAN master class IN ORDER thus to investigate our subject from the roots we shall endeavour to trace the two distinct economic ..."

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