An expert or highly skilled person, especially a musician.
he has interviewed ustads of various trades
Example sentencesExamples
- I had read enough Indian book reviews to know that reviewers are ustads with blades sharpened on a cruelly efficient whetstone.
- It is an honour to have the ustad with us.
- The daughters are sent to be trained by an ustad and not having an ustad entails loss of prestige.
- She reveals that she once attempted to learn the harmonium and singing in her college days from an ustad, but soon gave up.
- After the concert, the ustad watched happily as a few students, who were unlettered street urchins till recently, drew rudraveenas and wrote a paragraph about it each.