mastersinger
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of mastersinger
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Walther never reappears to accept his mastersinger prize.
From New York Times
Cavalry and the viewer. mastersinger's verbalmusic still works its magick in the broadest way immarginable, from the clearheaded images to the twoddle of a fuddled brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aided by Karl Boehm's lively and sensitive conducting, Wolfgang gave intimate poignancy to the often-slighted scene in which the knight, Von Stolzing. works out his song for the mastersinger's competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hans Sachs is the typical, the universal, the noblest, and the purest Mastersinger; but he is only the first among hundreds of others who helped to preserve in Germany the sacred fire of poetry.
From Project Gutenberg
David continued to tell of the difficulties of learning from a cobbler how to become a Mastersinger, though the cobbler was one himself.
From Project Gutenberg
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