ringmaster

English

Etymology

From ring +‎ master.

Noun

ringmaster (plural ringmasters)

1. The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
2. (Internet) The person who maintains a webring.
   • 2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:

     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.

   • 2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:

     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.

Translations

the person who manages the performers in a circus ring

• Danish: sprechstallmeister (da) c
• Finnish: tirehtööri (fi), sirkustirehtööri
• French: Monsieur Loyal m, Madame Loyal f
• German: Ringmeister, Sprechstallmeister
• Irish: máistir sorcais m
• Manx: mainshtyr m, mainshtyr yn phreaban m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sirkusdirektør m

• Polish: antreprener m (arcahic)
• Portuguese: diretor de circo m
• Romanian: maestru de manej m
• Russian: шпрехшталмейстер (ru) m (šprexštalmejster)
• Scottish Gaelic: maighstir an t-siorcais m
• Spanish: maestro de ceremonias m
• Swedish: cirkusdirektör (sv) c

Verb

ringmaster (third-person singular simple present ringmasters, present participle ringmastering, simple past and past participle ringmastered)

1. To act as ringmaster.
2. (figurative) To control (a group of people).

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