ringmaster en · NOUN
Etymology
From ring + master.
Meanings
- The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
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(Internet) The person who maintains a webring.
Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.
2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.
2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ringmasters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (18)
fi sirkustirehtööri (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · de Ringmeister (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · ro maestru de manej (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · fr Madame Loyal (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · de Sprechstallmeister (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · pt diretor de circo (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · no sirkusdirektør (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · da sprechstallmeister (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · ru шпрехшталмейстер (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · fi tirehtööri (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · fr Monsieur Loyal (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · es maestro de ceremonias (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · pl antreprener (arcahic) (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · gv mainshtyr yn phreaban (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · gd maighstir an t-siorcais (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · ga máistir sorcais (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · gv mainshtyr (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring) · sv cirkusdirektör (the person who manages the performers in a circus ring)