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maestro

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈmaɪstɹoʊ//
  • United States//maɪˈɛstɹoʊ//

A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.

noun

  1. 1

    A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.

    You've never been on a ride like this before; with a producer who can rap and control the maestro.

  2. 2

    slangA gang elder in prison.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian maestro, from Latin magistrum (“master”). Doublet of magister, master, and meister.

Forms

plural
maestros, maestri
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).