master-at-arms

1. 1.

   the senior petty officer; responsible for discipline aboard ship

   Broaderpetty officer

Questions about master-at-arms

What does master-at-arms mean?

master-at-arms means "the senior petty officer; responsible for discipline aboard ship".

How many syllables are in master-at-arms?

master-at-arms has 4 syllables and divides as ma-ste-r-a-t-arms under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is master-at-arms a common word?

master-at-arms is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.