master of ceremonies

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Noun

master of ceremonies (plural masters of ceremonies)

Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
(rap music, in the abbreviated form "MC" or sometimes "emcee") A rapper.

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host at a formal event

Armenian: սեղանապետ (hy) (sełanapet), թամադա (hy) (tʿamada)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 主持人 (zh) (zhǔchírén), 司儀 (zh), 司仪 (zh) (sīyí)
Danish: ceremonimester c
Dutch: ceremoniemeester (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: juhlamestari, seremoniamestari (fi)
French: maître de cérémonie (fr)
Georgian: თამადა (ka) (tamada)
German: Zeremonienmeister (de) m, Conférencier (de) m
Italian: cerimoniere m, accompagnatore (it) m, maestro di cerimonie m, cicerone (it) m

Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: dissignātor m
Manx: ard-yesheyder m
Norwegian: konferansier m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ча̏ӯш m

Roman: čȁūš (sh) m
Swedish: ceremonimästare c
Vietnamese: người dẫn chương trình (vi)

someone who conducts a program by introducing performers

Chinese:
Mandarin: 主持人 (zh) (zhǔchírén), 司儀 (zh), 司仪 (zh) (sīyí)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: juontaja (fi)
French: maître de cérémonie (fr)
German: Showmaster (de) m, Moderator (de) m, Ansager m, Conférencier (de) m, Präsentator m
Greek: παρουσιαστής (el) m (parousiastís)

Hungarian: szertartásmester, konferanszié (hu)
Italian: presentatore (it) m, presentatrice (it) f
Manx: fer y thie m
Polish: mistrz ceremonii m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: animador m, maestro de ceremonias m, presentador m
Swedish: konferencier (sv) c

rapper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 說唱歌手, 说唱歌手 (shuōchàng gēshǒu)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: MC (fi)

French: MC (fr)
Polish: emce m, emsi m, MC m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

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Italian: ^{(please verify)} cerimoniere m

master of ceremonies

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