maestro

noun

ˈmī-(ˌ)strō How to pronounce maestro (audio)
Definition of maestronext
as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field a maestro of the violin

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Recent Examples of maestro These five rising, behind-the-scenes maestros have worked on major hits for such likely 2027 contenders as Noah Kahan, Ariana Grande and Rosalía — and could be first-time nominees in the category. — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2026 The evening was a fitting toast to the shoe maestro, who celebrated his past, present and future alongside the Milan Fashion Week crowd and influential actresses and models, including Naomi Watts. — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 This places the audience alongside the Konyaks, and subverts the traditional, colonial cinematic gaze in the vein of Filipino maestro Lav Diaz. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 The premiere is easy enough to grasp, as the horror maestro has connected his disparate novels and stories for decades — sometimes explicitly, sometimes with just an Easter egg. — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for maestro
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maestro
  1. expert
  2. master
  3. virtuoso
  4. scholar
  5. adept
  6. wizard
  7. guru
  8. artist
Noun
  • Shane Hemphill is a landscape design expert and co-founder of Art of the Yard, a Denver company that specializes in water features and garden landscapes.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The planes landed safely at Paris' Orly Airport and bomb disposal experts conducted inspections.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of expert
Noun
  • The votes advanced a master funding agreement for the project and the expansion of a special financing district — which currently includes just the soccer stadium area — to cover most of the land in the 240-acre Railyards.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • In the decade since, UH has been mostly irrelevant, going through two different coaches and one bad extension before hiring Fritz, who has been a master program builder at every stop and every level.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of master
Noun
  • The music world is in mourning Richard Lloyd, the guitar virtuoso from Television, the New York band that put CBGB on the map and kicked off the punk-rock explosion.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Composer and piano virtuoso Clara Schumann, whose influence on 19th-century classical music is impossible to quantify.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of virtuoso
Noun
  • Historians, scholars and philosophers are stepping in to offer some solutions and warnings.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • In 1709, the French scholar Antoine Galland was attempting to add a new volume to his wildly popular translation of One Thousand and One Nights, the first edition of its kind for a European audience.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of scholar
Noun
  • Still, the question of what Ebel was doing with his adepts swept through Prussia, dominating the newspapers that had only recently begun to emerge from their eighteenth-century chronicling of obligations to a more modern publicizing role.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Lest things get predictable, Tasjan’s adept at letting the music battle with the lyrics in a way that hints at how any experience is far more complex than we are led to believe.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
Definition of adept
Noun
  • Among the counties now favoring Colom is Forrest County, home to Hattiesburg and named for Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Forrest County’s Competing Legacies Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Tennessee slave trader who became a Confederate general, later served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
    — Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of wizard
Noun
  • Jontay began to enjoy a reputation in the league as a market guru.
    — New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Julian Brodsky, a cable TV pioneer and financial guru who was a co-founding partner of Comcast more than 60 years ago, has died.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of guru
Noun
  • The cumulative effect can be untidy, but what would be truer to an artist in a moment of flux?
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Many of today’s most popular Mexican artists, from Natanael Cano to Fuerza Regida, cite Sanchez as an inspiration.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of artist

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“Maestro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maestro. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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