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# grandmaster

«grandmaster» in Mova's school dictionary: **The highest title a chess player can win, given by the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a grandmaster, grandmasters; also Grandmaster)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (chess) The highest title a chess player can win, given by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) to the very best players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#m1)

2) A great expert in a game or skill, as in «a grandmaster of magic». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#m2)

3) The head of some clubs, orders of knights or martial arts schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In chess clubs and the olympiad, children learn about grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen; some players become grandmasters as teenagers. In everyday life it means a true master. In martial arts and knightly orders, a Grandmaster is the leader. Short form: «GM».

### examples

- She dreams of becoming a chess grandmaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x1)
- The grandmaster played twenty children at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x2)
- Magnus Carlsen is a famous grandmaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x3)
- He is a grandmaster of card tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x4)
- The Grandmaster led the order of knights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x5)
- The youngest grandmasters earned the title at about 12 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/#x6)

### note

One word (sometimes «grand master»). Countable. Not the same as «grandmother» or «grandfather».

### In the corpora

- [Even top chess players, called grandmasters, lose games; going over a lost game is one of the best ways to improve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/25-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grandmaster» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmaster/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.