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mastery

UK/ˈmɑː.stə.ɹi/US/ˈmæs.tə.ɹi/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,183 of 15,258leans written

Mastery is complete command of a skill or a subject. Achieve mastery, mastery of the language, technical mastery.

It takes of. In education, mastery learning is a method where everybody must reach a standard before the class moves on, rather than moving together and leaving some behind, and the evidence for it is surprisingly strong.

Definitions of mastery

  1. 1nounmasteryComplete command of a skill or a subject.B2+

    “Her mastery of the violin amazed the audience.”

mastery is a command.

Where it comes from

Old French maistrie comes from maistre, a master, from Latin magister.

  1. Middle English

    maistrie

  2. English, today

    mastery

From Middle English maistrie. From Middle English maistery, maistrie, mastere, mastry, from Old French maistrie, equivalent to master + y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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mastery in the wild

  • If a student does not initially achieve mastery, they receive additional instruction and support until they do.

    Mastery learning

  • A mastery orientation is also sometimes referred to as a learning orientation.

    Goal orientation

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • master
  • masterful