Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for maestro. Search instead for maestosos.
Definitions

maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

That mindset has made him a horror maestro for over three decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The emergence of centre-back William Saliba and creative maestro Michael Olise are among the refresh for Didier Deschamps' side since then.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

The new CEO came into the role as an operational maestro who would bring a critical eye to that vast portfolio of businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

He had become a maestro himself—was regarded as he had once regarded Uncle Dap.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Just as much, those maestri would defer to Mr. Drucker’s interpretations of clarinet solos.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2022

As an example let us take the case of the radio maestri.

From Time Magazine Archive

And this piece of ecclesiastical furniture therefore presented a great field for the taste and ingenuity of the old maestri in wood-carving to exhibit their skill both in design and in execution.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

For five years now I've given up what I'd like to do, and I've tried, under the best maestri I could find, to make something out of my voice, so to speak.

From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The art of Priscilla seems to me to satisfy this test much better than that of many of our modern maestri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various

Donning video headsets and armed with nothing more than a joystick and the Olympics’ fastest fingers, these maestros have the exact same objective as the athlete they’re filming: to be the best in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

A photo in his shop shows maestros Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and Bhajan Sopori performing with his instruments.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2025

Speaking of midfield maestros, the mercurial Zidane has been out of management since leaving Barcelona's Clasico rivals Real Madrid in 2021.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2024

For decades, American maestros had been cast aside in classical music, seen as inferior to Europeans.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2024

In the classical music world, 80 percent of the information available to the maestros was removed, and lo and behold, the maestros suddenly exercised much better judgment.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




Vocabulary lists containing maestro


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training