Muster

Noun

 * 1) Gathering.
 * 2) An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
 * 3) * 1743, Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.:
 * She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
 * 1)  An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
 * 2) * 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1:
 * Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
 * 1) * 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 4 Jul 1663:
 * And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen [...].
 * 1)  A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
 * 2) * 2006, John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos!, Boolarong Press:
 * McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
 * 1) Showing.
 * 2)  Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
 * 3)  An act of showing something; a display.
 * 4) * 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, Book III:
 * Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
 * 1) * 1647, Beaumont & Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, Act 2:
 * And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
 * 1) A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).

Derived terms

 * pass muster
 * bangtail muster

Verb

 * 1)  To show, exhibit.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
 * 4)  To summon together; to get together, to gather.
 * I mustered up all my remaining willpower.
 * 1)  To enroll (into service).

Derived terms

 * muster in
 * muster out

Thesaurus
accumulate, agenda, agglomerate, aggregate, aggregation, aggroup, amass, assemblage, assemble, assembly, batch, beadroll, beat the drums, bid come, bring together, bugle call, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cadastre, calendar, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to arms, call together, call up, call-up, canvass, catchword, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, cite, clarion, clarion call, clot, clump, cluster, collect, collection, colligate, colligation, collocate, collocation, combination, combine, come together, commandeer, company, compare, comparison, compile, compulsory military service, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglomerate, congregate, congregation, congress, conjure, conjure up, conscript, conscription, convene, convention, converge, convergence, convocation, convoke, copulate, corral, corralling, couple, crowd, cumulate, data-gathering, date, demand, detach, detach for service, dig up, docket, draft, draft call, drafting, dramatis personae, draw together, dredge up, drive together, enlist, enlistment, enroll, enrollment, evoke, exhortation, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gather in, gather together, gathering, get in, get together, go for broke, group, gung ho, head count, herd together, hive, honor roll, horde, huddle, impress, impressment, indent, induct, induction, ingathering, inventory, invoke, join, join up, junction, jury list, jury panel, juxtapose, juxtaposition, league, levy, lineup, link, list, lump together, make the grade, make up, marshal, mass, match, measure up, meet, meeting, merge, mill, mobilization, mobilize, muster in, muster roll, muster up, nose count, order of business, order up, page, pair, partner, pass muster, poll, preconize, press, program, property roll, put together, questionnaire, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, rallying cry, rebel yell, recall, recruit, recruiting, recruitment, rendezvous, requisition, returns, rodeo, roll, roll call, roster, rota, round up, roundup, scrape together, scroll, seethe, selective service, send after, send for, serve, sign, sign on, sign up, slogan, stream, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, surge, survey, swarm, take up, tax roll, throng, trumpet call, turnout, unite, war cry, war whoop, watchword, whip in

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

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian: adunata, assemblea


 * Polish:


 * Czech:
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 * Italian: adunata
 * Polish: przegląd


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: spęd


 * Finnish:


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 * Finnish:
 * Italian: mostra


 * Polish:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: stadko

Verb

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, kutsua kokoon,


 * Italian: radunare
 * Polish: zwoływać, zwołać


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Italian: convocare
 * Swedish: uppbåda


 * Finnish:


 * Italian: arruolare, ingaggiare, assumere


 * Czech:
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 * Polish: zbierać, zebrać


 * : לאסוף, לרכז, לאזור, להתאסף

Anagrams

 * muters
 * stumer