2. Verb. (third-person singular of mastermind) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Masterminds
1. mastermind [v] - See also: mastermind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masterminds
Literary usage of Masterminds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... produced such mighty masterminds as Lagrange, Fourier, Ampère, and Laplace,
does not now contain many who might well have rivalled the achievements even ..."
2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"It provides for a magnificent congress of the masterminds of all countries, who
shall meet and, with the unrivalled collection of the material elements of ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"They were the utterances of masterminds dead in earnest. The leaders were such
men as Keble, author of the 'Christian Year'; Dr. Pusey, Regius Professor of ..."
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