carpenter
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)carpenters
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objectsType of woodworkerExamples Joseph
Verb (1)carpenters, carpentering
- work as a carpenterMore general work
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Translations
Noun one who practices carpentry
- Spanish
- carpintero
- French
- menuisier
- German
- Zimmermann
- Italian
- falegname
- Portuguese
- carpinteiro
- Turkish
- marangoz
- Russian
- пло́тник plótnik
- Arabic
- نَجَّار najjār
- Chinese
- 木匠 mùjiàng
- Japanese
- 大工 daiku
33 more languages
- Dutch
- timmerman
- Polish
- cieśla
- Swedish
- snickare
- Greek
- ξυλουργός xylourgós
- Korean
- 목수 moksu
- Indonesian
- tukang kayu
- Vietnamese
- thợ mộc
- Hungarian
- ács
- Portuguese (PT)
- carpinteiro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 木匠 mùjiàng
- Albanian
- zdrukthëtar
- Breton
- kalvez
- Catalan
- fuster
- Czech
- tesař
- Danish
- tømrer
- Esperanto
- ĉarpentisto
- Estonian
- puusepp
- Finnish
- puuseppä
- Georgian
- დურგალი durgali
- Hebrew
- נַגָּר nagár
- Icelandic
- smiður
- Kurdish
- necarr
- Latvian
- galdnieks
- Lithuanian
- dailidė
- Norwegian
- tømrer
- Romanian
- dulgher
- Scottish Gaelic
- saor
- Serbo-Croatian
- tesar
- Slovak
- tesár
- Slovenian
- tesar
- Swahili
- seremala
- Welsh
- saer coed
- Yiddish
- סטאָליער stolyer
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. carpentier, F. charpentier, LL. carpentarius, fr. L. carpentum wagon, carriage.
An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Synonyms: Carpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner supplies stairs, doors shutters, mantelpieces, cupboards, and other parts necessary to finishing the building. In America the two trades are commonly united.
Carpenter ant Zoology, any species of ant which gnaws galleries in the wood of trees and constructs its nests therein. They usually select dead or somewhat decayed wood. The common large American species is Formica Pennsylvanica. — Carpenter bee Zoology, a large hymenopterous insect of the genus Xylocopa; — so called because it constructs its nest by gnawing long galleries in sound timber. The common American species is Xylocopa Virginica.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54