Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.
- n. An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man hired to work by the day; a day-worker.
- n. A workman or mechanic who has served his apprenticeship; specifically, a qualified mechanic employed in the exercise of his trade, as distinguished from a master mechanic or a foreman.
- n. In astronomy, a secondary clock in an observatory: used, generally, as an intermediary in the comparison of standard clocks: more fully, journeyman clock.
Wiktionary
- n. a tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman
- n. a competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day
- n. sports a player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from
apprentice and frommaster workman . - n. A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
Etymologies
- Old French jornee ("a day's work, a journey") + -man (Wiktionary)
- Middle English journeiman : journei, a day's work; see journey + man, man; see man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At this point, as the name journeyman implies, you get some confidence-boosting independence and a significant pay raise.”
“Before the term "journeyman" permanently affixed itself to his resume.”
“• Canada starting pitcher Mike Johnson gives new meaning to the term journeyman righthander.”
“_ -- Three or four years since, a paragraph went the round of the press, deriving the English word "journeyman" from the custom of travelling among work-men in Germany.”
“In any event, after some success, incorporation into the guild and employment as journeyman is all but inevitable for almost everyone who has had even modest success in the marketplace; the guild is eager to remove such authentic literary writers from the marketplace as soon as possible, to eliminate the competition.”
“Indeed something shall be done. my income as a journeyman is diminish'd through the publicity of my name; I have to visit and to write more than I could allwash wish, my expence even for letters is not small.”
“Bohanon, always the epitome of a journeyman, is one of the Mets 'best pitchers?”
“Dissatisfied with the terms victim or survivor since they don't quite fit, the author chooses the term journeyman, a traveler guided by hope.”
“Next morning I called the journeyman aside in secret.”
“Zubrus the pure definition of "journeyman" - were far more valuable to the team.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘journeyman’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
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January 2012
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
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Trusty Assistants
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Notable
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Nycanthro's list
I like words. Have kept running lists for years now. If I'd been born wealthy I'd be a linguist. Or maybe a semi-reclusive yet world-weary linguist-humanitarian-hiphop-icon known for his humility a...
oaktag, backstory, homonormative, gobshite, imagineer, comeuppance, tomfoolery, ersatz, widdershins, gigajoule, oneupmanship, conniption and 40 more...
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RPG
rogue, alchemy, lady's favor, trollkin, herald's call, critical hit, insect plague, alteration, conjuration, destruction, mysticism, illusion and 65 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
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Who Are You?
No one ever says, "I want to be a somnambulist when I grow up." But don't let that get in the way of organizing your Wordie lists.
chevalier, somnambulist, sommelier, troubadour, vicar, majordomo, caliph, polyglot, polymath, apprentice, nuyorican, privateer and 107 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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use•ful
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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dailyword This word was used a lot in the "Dragonriders Of Pern" series of books. Jul 8, 2012
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