masterpiece

SEE DEFINITION OF masterpiece

magnum opus

noun. greatest single work

monument

noun. memorial, remembrance

monuments

noun. memorial, remembrance

museum piece

noun. collectible item

antique
classic
collector's item
collector's piece
curio
heirloom
masterpiece
old master
showpiece

piece de resistance

noun. outstanding accomplishment

showpiece

noun. exhibit

Word Origin & History

c.1600, from master (n.) + piece (n.). A loan-translation of Dutch meesterstuk "work by which a craftsman attains the rank of master" (or its German cognate Meisterstück).

Example Sentences formasterpiece

The outcome of that objective vision was Hamlet—a masterpiece of self-revealing.

Lamb and Coleridge, on the other hand, have praised "Lear" as a world's masterpiece.

Viewed only as a masterpiece of human life it might well be the despair of mankind.

A stanza, the final one of that masterpiece, has been preserved.

It's a masterpiece to have invented a serious suit that is not black.

Of plot there is little, but as a terrible study in realism the book is a masterpiece.

She seemed to be sobbing as she lay there, and Santerre declared the conception to be a masterpiece.

Superintending the icing of this masterpiece occupied some time.

This masterpiece is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.

Audrey looked up, but the baby was not looking at her; he was absorbed in his masterpiece.

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