HOW TO PRONOUNCE
maestro
/ˈmaɪstɹoʊ/
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What does maestro mean?
noun
- A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.
- (slang) A gang elder in prison.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmaɪstɹoʊ/
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It is all in vain that the painter, the maestro, the poet, the critic endeavour to make the cords vibrate.
The marriage was most unhappy, and the Maestro Grandoni was suspected of using the fiddle-bow as an instrument of conjugal correction.
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In the first circle of the "Inferno," Virgil leads Dante into a wonderful company, "star-seated" on the verdure (he says)--the philosophic family looking with reverence on "the Master of those who know"--il maestro di color che sanno.(28) And with justice has Aristotle been so regarded for these twenty-three centuries.