Grand Master

Highest lodge title

Grand Master is an official title for the head of certain organizations, particularly knightly orders, Freemasons, and similar fraternal bodies: Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

It also serves as a formal designation for chess players who have achieved the highest international ranking: She earned the title of Grand Master at age fifteen. (Lowercase grand master describes the rank or role generally.)

title chess

world championship

Top-tier international tournament victory

title fraternal

Knights Templar

Medieval military religious order

Categories
Opposites
hierarchical rank/expertise level

Grand Masterapprentice

Learner bound to employer

novice · beginner · neophyte · initiate · trainee

skill/competence

Grand Masternovice

Inexperienced newcomer to field

beginner · amateur · neophyte · tyro · incompetent

ORGANIZATIONAL AUTHORITY (in orders/lodges)

Grand Masterinitiate

To set in motion

novitiate · pledge · probationer · subordinate · underling

Family

master, grand, mastery, masterful, grandly, grandest, grander, masterfully, Master

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