Definitions for Muster
ˈmʌs tərmuster

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. musternoun

   a gathering of military personnel for duty

   "he was thrown in the brig for missing muster"

2. conscription, muster, draft, selective serviceverb

   compulsory military service

3. muster, rally, summon, come up, muster upverb

   gather or bring together

   "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"

4. musterverb

   call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. musternoun

   Gathering.

2. musternoun

   Showing.

3. musterverb

   To show, exhibit.

4. musterverb

   To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.

5. musterverb

   To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.

6. musterverb

   To summon together; to get together, to gather.

   I mustered up all my remaining willpower.

7. musterverb

   To enroll (into service).

8. Etymology: The verb comes from monstrer, mustrer etc. and mostrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from monstrare, from monere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Musternoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A review of a body of forces.

   All the names
   Of thy confederates too, be no less great
   In hell than here: that when we would repeat
   Our strengths in muster, we may name you all. Ben Jonson.

   2. A register of forces mustered.

   Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount to thousands. Richard Hooker.

   Deception takes wrong measures, and makes false musters, which sounds a retreat instead of a charge, and a charge instead of a retreat. Robert South, Sermons.

   3.A collection: as, a muster of peacocks. Robert Ainsworth4. To pass Muster. To be allowed.

   Such excuses will not pass muster with God, who will allow no man’s idleness to be the measure of possible or impossible. Robert South, Sermons.

   Double dealers may pass muster for a while; but all parties wash their hands of them in the conclusion. Roger L'Estrange.

2. To MUSTERverb

   Etymology: mousteren, Dutch.

   1. To review forces.

   The captain, half of whose soldiers are dead, and the other quarter never mustered nor seen, demands payment of his whole account. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   The principal scribe of the host mustered the people. 2 Kings.

   Old Anchises
   Review’d his muster’d race, and took the tale. Dryden.

   A man might have three hundred and eighteen men in his family, without being heir to Adam, and might muster them up, and lead them out against the Indians. John Locke.

   2. To bring together.

   Had we no quarrel to Rome, but that
   Thou art thence banish’d, we would muster all
   From twelve to seventy. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I’ll muster up my friends, and meet your grace. William Shakespeare.

   I could muster up, as well as you,
   My giants and my witches too. John Donne.

   A daw tricked himself up with all the gay feathers he could muster. Roger L'Estrange.

   All the wise sayings and advices which philosophers could muster up to this purpose, have proved ineffectual to the common people. John Tillotson.

   Having mustered up all the forces he could think of, the clouds above, and the deeps below: these, says he, are all the stores we have for water; and Moses directs us to no other for the causes of the deluge. John Woodward, Natural History.

3. To Musterverb

   To assemble in order to form an army.

   Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
   So dispossessing all my other parts
   Of necessary fitness? William Shakespeare, Meas. for Measure.

   They reach the destin’d place,
   And muster there, and round the centre swarm,
   And draw together. Richard Blackmore, Creation.

ChatGPTRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. muster

   Muster is a verb that means to gather or summon, typically for inspection, display, or necessary action. It can also refer to the process of gathering or collecting one's thoughts or resources. As a noun, it refers to a formal gathering, especially of troops or people for inspection, display, or exercise.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Musterverb

   something shown for imitation; a pattern

2. Musterverb

   a show; a display

3. Musterverb

   an assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service

4. Musterverb

   the sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army

5. Musterverb

   any assemblage or display; a gathering

6. Musterverb

   to collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like

7. Musterverb

   hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together

8. Musterverb

   to be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force

9. Etymology: [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer, mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to show. See Monster.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Muster

   Aggie Muster is a time-honored tradition at Texas A&M University which celebrates the camaraderie of the school while remembering the lives of Aggies who have died, specifically those in the past year. Muster officially began on April 21, 1922 as a day for remembrance of fellow Aggies. Muster ceremonies today take place in approximately 320 locations globally. The largest muster ceremony occurs in Reed Arena, on the Texas A&M campus. The "Roll Call for the Absent" commemorates Aggies, former and current students, who died that year. Aggies light candles, and friends and families of Aggies who died that year answer “here” when the name of their loved one is “called”. Campus muster also serves as a 50th year class reunion for the corresponding graduating class. Some non-campus muster ceremonies do not include the pageantry of the campus ceremony, and might consist simply of a barbecue.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Muster

   mus′tėr, v.t. to assemble, as troops for duty or inspection: to gather, summon (with up).—v.i. to be gathered together, as troops.—n. an assembling of troops: a register of troops mustered: assemblage: collected show.—ns. Mus′ter-book (Shak.), a book in which military forces are registered; Mus′ter-file (Shak.), a muster-roll; Mus′ter-mas′ter, the master of the muster, or who takes an account of troops, their arms, &c.; Mus′ter-roll, a register of the officers and men in each company, troop, or regiment present at the time of muster.—Pass muster, to pass inspection uncensured. [O. Fr. mostre, monstre—L. monstrum—monēre, to warn.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. muster

   A review of troops under arms, fully equipped, in order to take an account of their numbers, inspect their arms and accoutrements, and examine their condition. In the U. S. service troops are mustered bi-monthly. During the civil war, the mustering in and mustering out of troops (into or out of the U. S. service) were performed by staff-officers, called commissaries of musters.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MUSTER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Muster is ranked #47272 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Muster surname appeared 449 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Muster.
   
   93.9% or 422 total occurrences were White.
   3.1% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Call
   • Gather
   • Gathering
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Anagrams for Muster »

1. muters

2. stumer

3. sertum

How to pronounce Muster?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Muster in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Muster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Muster in a Sentence

1. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   I'm still convinced: where there's a will, there's a way, if those in charge in Greece can muster the will, an agreement ... is still possible.

2. The Wilson Center report:

   Finland’s artillery forces are the largest and best-equipped in Western Europe, with some 1,500 artillery weapons, including 700 Howitzer guns, 700 heavy mortar, and 100 rocket launcher systems, the Finnish artillery has more artillery firepower than the combined militaries of Poland, Germany, Norway, and Sweden can currently muster.

3. Jake Anderson:

   I don’t think it was fit for man or beast out there, but we were still there and that’s what makes it entertaining. it comes to a point where, if you’re not going to make money, you might as well go on land. You have to just muster up everything you’ve got and trust in your guys and trust you taught them well. You’re going to have to put them in harm's way... every day for 54 days.

4. Harminder Sahni:

   Where brick and mortar grocery in India fails to muster scale, online can do it very, very quickly just by the sheer opportunity of reaching a number of people with much less investment.

5. Michael Woody:

   They're not breaking any laws that are violent in nature or effecting quality of life issues, if they did want to leave, we would help them with what resources we could muster, but discussions may need to be had soon in finding them something a little more permanent.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Muster
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Muster
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Muster
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Muster
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Muster
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Muster
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html