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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
  2. n. One that plans or devises: a country considered to be the chief architect of war in the Middle East.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or whose profession it is to form plans and designs of buildings and superintend the execution of them.
  2. n. One who plans, designs, or consummates any complex thing: as, the supreme Architect of the universe; he is the architect of his own fortunes.
  3. n. One who contrives, devises, or plots.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
  2. n. A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
  3. v. transitive To design, plan, or orchestrate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
  2. n. A contriver, designer, or maker.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

Etymologies

  1. Middle French architecte, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitektōn, "master builder"), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, "chief") + τέκτων (tektōn, "builder"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektōn : arkhi-, archi- + tektōn, builder; see teks- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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