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meistersinger
Word definitions for meistersinger in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of mastersinger English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
MeisterSinger is a manufacturer of mechanical wristwatches based in Münster , Germany . Annual sales are claimed to be 10,000 pieces
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from German Meistersinger , literally "master singer;" see master (adj.) + singer .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meistersinger \Meis"ter*sing`er\, n. [G.] See Mastersinger .
Usage examples of meistersinger.
It was Meistersinger who led the reinforcements on the day of the battle with the angels.
You could have been a meistersinger of any city or town if you had wanted it.
With daylight, it vanished, and the meistersinger could speak with us.
He became leader of the city soon after the old meistersinger died of apparently natural causes.
If she had traveled, she might have become a meistersinger, but she was not ambitious.
I was young and full of that zest which as leaked out of me and which we are journeying to recover for me by means of the great revitalizing properties of that, long fleecy golden thing of which the bards sing and the skalds sing and the Meistersingers sing, said the Dead Father.
At any rate I never sang a bar of the Meistersingers, but when I came round I was in a chair by the kitchen fire and Else was cutting the blood-soaked clothes away from the wound in my shoulder.
I meant to watch the programme last summer, but unfortunately they were doing Meistersinger on BBC 2 the same night, and I was videoing that as well as watching it.