grand master

noun

1

: the chief officer of a principal lodge in various fraternal orders (such as Freemasonry)

2

: an expert player (as of chess) who has consistently scored high in international competition

Examples of grand master in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stubbs, whose 300th birthday is this year, was regarded as the grand master painter of people and animals at the time. —James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2024

For one thing, a mediocre player could amass an undefeated record by beating up on newbies while a grand master wins some and loses some against other grand masters. —Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024

In our chess experiments and the follow-up experiments by Sheridan and Reingold, some exceptionally skilled experts, such as grand masters, did in fact spot the less obvious optimal solution even when a slower but more familiar sequence of moves was possible. —Merim Bilalić, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2014

While Hou, Taiwan cinema’s grand master, may recently have retired due to ill health, there may be more to come from Taiwan’s younger generation. —Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1722, in the meaning defined at sense 1