spymaster

noun

spy·​mas·​ter ˈspī-ˌma-stər 

: the head of a ring of spies : a director of intelligence

Examples of spymaster in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau). —Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025

The former spymaster, once an aspirant for the position of army chief, has been accused of colluding with Mr. Khan to destabilize the tenure of Gen. Asim Munir, the current head of the Pakistan Army, and of helping to orchestrate the riots of May 9, 2023. —Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024

As political tensions rose in 1938, Warner invited a group of Hollywood executives and insiders—director Mervyn LeRoy, actor Paul Muni, anti-Nazi spymaster and attorney Leon Lewis, and producer David O. Selznick—to read Morris Lazaron’s Common Ground: A Plea for Intelligent Americanism (1938). —Chris Yogerst / Made By History, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025

In the fall of 2022, U.S. and Russian spymasters met in Turkey. —Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for spymaster

• bandmaster
• broadcaster
• cadastre
• disaster
• forecaster
• headmaster
• newscaster
• paymaster
• pilaster
• postmaster
• roadmaster
• schoolmaster