1. Great skilfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
   - command, control 
2. Power to dominate or defeat
   "mastery of the seas"
   - domination, supremacy 
3. The act of mastering or subordinating someone
   - subordination

Derived forms: masteries

See also: master

Type of: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance, domination, skilfulness [Brit, Cdn], skillfulness [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Mastery

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