Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who practices a craft with great skill.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A member of a craft; an artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation.
Wiktionary
- n. A male artisan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a creator of great skill in the manual arts
- n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
- n. a professional whose work is consistently of high quality
Etymologies
- craft's + -man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A craftsman is typically his own worst critic, that is the way it should be.”
“Kitchen work at that time was considered menial labour; perhaps if a cook became skilled enough he might be called a craftsman, but he would never be valued for his contribution in the same way as a lawyer or an architect is.”
“If you know that, and contract a goblin craftsman, you should probably expect to abide by that concept.”
“Now, the woods are gone; the craftsman is gone, and when a farmer today is face to face with the problem of building a new house, that house will cost him as much as if it were built in the town.”
“Indeed, it’s intellectual property where the cachet of a craftsman is probably gaining in currency.”
“No Baghdad-trained IED craftsman is going to show up in LA or DC, but I’m not so sure about Paris or Warsaw.”
“The resonant phrases, no doubt coined by Downing Street's resonant phrase craftsman, continued to roll out.”
The Guardian: Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch
“The art of the craftsman is a bond between the peoples of the world," declared Florence Dibell Bartlett, founder Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art.”
The Huffington Post: Jonathan Lewis: Shoppers Without Borders
“The poet is a word craftsman, a master of language.”
“The life of a craftsman is a constant daily fulfilment of the final ideal of the man who spends all his time and strength in acquiring wealth so that some time (and he may never live to see the day) he may be able to control his time and to use it as pleases him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘craftsman’.
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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Masonry
Due to my absolute ignorance of masonry and masonic terms, this list is shamelessly copied from this masonic dictionary.
Feel free to add words (as soon as I complete my transcription).abif, accepted, accord, active member, adjournment, admonish, adoration, adversity, affiliate, affirmation, lawful age, aid of deity and 143 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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fatal attraction
So there's this guy...
and it's never going to happen.
I'm a little too into him.
But hey, who are you to judge?
These are the words that make me think of him
or word...beguiling, iconoclast, alluring, troglodyte, sexy, obscure, metallurgy, bibleophile, rigger, mokume gane, shibari, corsetry and 16 more...
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Teacher
educator, tutor, intructor, coach, lecturer, professor, schoolteacher, trainer, mentor, professional, craftsman
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New Words
New Words - Building my own vocabulary
brownfield, greenfield, behalf, pet peeve, lead time, mock, proxy, craftsman, cliff, Nimble, Awkward, craftsmanship and 85 more...
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