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Meistersinger

Meistersinger \Meis"ter*sing`er\, n. [G.] See Mastersinger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
meistersinger

1845, from German Meistersinger, literally "master singer;" see master (adj.) + singer.

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meistersinger

n. (alternative form of mastersinger English)

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Meistersinger

A (German for "master singer") was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the most part.

MeisterSinger (watchmaker)

MeisterSinger is a manufacturer of mechanical wristwatches based in Münster, Germany. Annual sales are claimed to be 10,000 pieces

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.