master sergeant

1. 1.

   a senior noncommissioned officer in the Army or Marines

   Broadersergeant

Questions about master sergeant

What does master sergeant mean?

master sergeant means "a senior noncommissioned officer in the Army or Marines".

Is master sergeant a common word?

master sergeant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.