spellmaster

An expert or consummate spellcaster.

Noun

  1. An expert or consummate spellcaster.
    • The spellmasters control powerful forces which we can use in the assault on the monster when it reaches Homeground. - 1967 December, David Redd, “Sundown”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 10, column...
    • Mendark is very old and Havissard nearly killed him. He was forced to renew himself, though he knew it was one time too many. It was not a complete success, and the best spellmasters in Thurkad have not been able to...
    • The powerful empire has decided to destroy all the negative karma in the world, but Master Fuzen, the leader of a rogue clan of spellmasters, has foreseen that the spell will fail and will destroy the world instead. -...
  2. An official in charge of running a spelling bee.
    • Among the diversions will be an old-time spelling bee, captained by Frank H. Goodfellow, for the first twenty-five years, and by John B. Elliott for the last twenty-five years. Hon. James H. Craig of Harrisburg will be...
    • The spellmaster was Beaumont superintendent Maureen Latham, who who read the words and used them in sentences for the contestants. - 2014 January 31, Julie Farren, “Beaumont Unified holds annual Spelling Bee”, in Record...
    • A group of board members has been putting together a list of words for the spelling bee, and Rothschild said during the event the spellmaster will pronounce each word, define it, use it in a sentence and then repeat it....

Origin

From spell + master.

Forms

spellmasters spell-master