as in classic
something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator's greatest achievement
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are often considered to be his masterpieces
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Recent Examples of masterpiece
Each section of the flower show in Templars Hall, where entries are placed in categories, was adorned with small versions of masterpieces.
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Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
Bradley’s film choreography, even in the numbers that Footer deems masterpieces, is above average, clever and assured, but Astaire’s art—inconceivable without the enormous influence of Bradley’s Black contemporaries, like John Bubbles—is in another league.
—Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
The Family Stone actress penned her 2017 book about her masterpiece, writing that the inspiration behind her design stemmed from the children's fable, The Three Little Pigs.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
His older brother was a fan of their newer work, but Sandoval quickly fixated on the band’s 1960s catalog, especially their 1968 masterpiece The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2026
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Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
Bradley’s film choreography, even in the numbers that Footer deems masterpieces, is above average, clever and assured, but Astaire’s art—inconceivable without the enormous influence of Bradley’s Black contemporaries, like John Bubbles—is in another league.
—Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
The Family Stone actress penned her 2017 book about her masterpiece, writing that the inspiration behind her design stemmed from the children's fable, The Three Little Pigs.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
His older brother was a fan of their newer work, but Sandoval quickly fixated on the band’s 1960s catalog, especially their 1968 masterpiece The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for masterpiece
Noun
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Renaissance humanists certainly emphasized a corpus of Greek and Roman classics for the self-fashioned man, the predictable coterie that includes Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Virgil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Game 7 went down as an NHL classic, with Matteau scoring his famous double-overtime winner to send New York to its first Cup Final since 1979.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Noun
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The attendees at the British Museum cocktail party, surrounded by masterworks of 20th-century art, couldn’t help but gush about one single gallery show on view in New York City.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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The Emiratis were paying the French $1 billion for the rights to the Louvre name, guidance on what art to buy, and loans of masterworks by Da Vinci, Matisse, and Van Gogh.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2026
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“Masterpiece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterpiece. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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