master, ruler, tyrant, despot, dictator; employer, Inf. boss, Inf. bossman, Inf. big boss, man-in-charge; leader, head, headman, captain, sachem, chief, chieftain; superior, commander, commandant; manager, overseer, taskmaster, slave driver, supervisor, superintendent, Inf. super, Brit, gaffer; Inf. kingpin, Inf. kingfish, Inf. number one, Inf Mr. Big, Si. top dog, Sl. head honcho, Sl. big cheese, Sl. big wheel.
2. innkeeper, innholder, proprietor, host, restaurateur, hotelkeeper, hotelman, operator, owner, landlord.
paean, n. psalm, hymn, alleluia, hallelujah, gloria, doxology, spiritual, religious song, hymn tune, Eccles. cantus firmus; anthem, national anthem, state song, song of praise, song, melody, tune, air, composition; ode, encomium, panegyric, eulogy; celebration, laudation, glorification, exaltation, magnification; canticle, chorale, choral, Music, cantata, Music, motet, pagan, n. 1. heathen, unbeliever, nonbeliever, infidel, Archaic, paynim, Islam, kafir, Turkish, giaour, gentile; idolater, idolizer, idolatrizer, sun worshiper, heliolater, star worshiper, fetishist, zoolater, animal worshiper, fire worshiper, devil worshiper, demon worshiper; pantheist, animist, primitive, aboriginal, barbarian, philistine; savage, Caliban; irreligionist, hedonist, earthling, worldling.
2. atheist, freethinker, disbeliever, nullifidian, nihilist, agnostic, skeptic, Pyrrhonist, minimifidian; doubter, Doubting Thomas; iconoclast, secularist; apostate, heretic, backslider, antichrist.
-adj. 3. idolatrous, idol-worshiping, idolistic, icon-worshiping, fetishistic; heathen, heathenish, infidel, paganish, paganistic, gentile, godless; pantheistic, pantheistical, polytheistic, animist, animistic, voodoo-istic, demonolatrous; barbarous, primitive, uncivilized, savage; irreligious, worldly, secularist, irreverent, hedonistic; heretical, not-born-again, unsaved, impenitent, unrepentant, living in a state of sin, bound for hell; unchristian, antichristian.
4. atheist, freethinking, disbelieving, nihilistic; agnostic, skeptical, cynical, doubting, minimifidian, Pyr-rhonistic, iconoclastic, paganism, n. 1. idolatry, idolism, idolization, idol-atrism, idol worship, fetishism, iconolatry, iconoduly, icon worship, gentilism, heathenism; henotheism, ditheism; pantheism, animism, animal worship, zoola-try, sun worship, heliolatry, fire worship, demonism, demon worship, devil worship, demonolatry; hedonism, worldliness, materialism.
2. heresy, heterodoxy, unorthodoxy, non-belief, nihilism, disbelief, atheism; doubt, skepticism, agnosticism; nonconformity, free thought, free thinking, iconoclasm; irreligion, impiety. page1, n. 1. leaf, flyleaf, endpaper, endleaf, end-sheet; recto, verso; printed page, typescript; sheet, folio, signature, gathering.
2. (of history) event, incident, episode, occurrence, particular, affair, matter, series of events, related happenings; point, stage, period, era, age, time, decade, turning point, chapter.
-v. 3. paginate, number, mark, give a number to, foliate; leaf, leaf through, leaf over, turn, turn over, thumb through, riffle. page2, n. 1. page boy, servant, servant boy, serving boy, attendant, tender; bellboy, bellhop, cabin boy, chore boy, house boy.
2. squire, Fr. gargon, footboy, cupbearer, trainbear-er; flunky, lackey, slavey, menial, servitor.
3. messenger, errand boy or girl, runner, congressional page, Inf. gofer; office boy, copy runner, call boy, printer's devil; usher.