Wordmaster
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who is highly skilled as a speaker and/or writer.
"My feelings are particularly strong about that piece of thinking the anti-union wordmasters have labeled “right to work” legislation."
- 2 One who knows a lot of words or a lot about words.
"As the students read the assembled articles on islands, have them note unfamiliar words and transcribe the sentences in which they appear. These are to be submitted to a pre-selected team of “wordmasters,” who will look up the words in the dictionary, select the appropriate meaning for each, then compose four sentences: two that provide different contexts for the word, one that uses a synonym, and one that uses an antonym."
Example
More examples"My feelings are particularly strong about that piece of thinking the anti-union wordmasters have labeled “right to work” legislation."
Etymology
From word + master.
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