máster

master's degree

noun MAHS-tehr Rare

Origin: English master (via academic and recording industry usage).

Also means

master (recording or file)

Usage Note

Máster is a borrowed term, officially accepted by the Real Academia Española with a written accent to signal stress on the first syllable. It denotes a postgraduate academic programme (máster universitario) and also a master copy in recording—pista máster. The plural is másteres. In informal speech máster competes with posgrado and postgrado for the academic sense.

Examples

"Está cursando un máster en derecho."

Natural Translation

She is doing a master's degree in law.

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