Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who builds or works with stone or brick.
- n. A Freemason.
- v. To build of or strengthen with masonry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A builder in stone or brick; one whose occupation or trade is the laying of stone or brick in construction, with or without mortar or cement.
- n. A builder in general.
- n. A worker in stone; a stone-cutter or -hewer.
- n. A member of the fraternity of freemasons. See freemason.
- To construct of masonry; build of stone or brick; build.
Wiktionary
- n. One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
- n. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
- v. transitive To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
- n. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
- v. To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix
WordNet 3.0
- n. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)
- n. a craftsman who works with stone or brick
- n. English writer (1865-1948)
- n. a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love
- n. English film actor (1909-1984)
Etymologies
- From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Old Low Frankish *mattio, from Proto-Germanic *maitōn (compare German obsolete Metz, Steinmetze), from *maitanan (“to cut, hew”) (compare Old High German meizan, East Frisian matje, Old Norse meita), from Proto-Indo-European *mai-d- (“to alter”) (compare Old Lithuanian apmaitinti ("to wound"), Latvian màitât ("to spoil, destroy")), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“to change, exchange”). More at mean, mutate. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French maçon, masson, of Germanic origin; see mag- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We bonded over our shared love of blended drinks in mason jars and indie pop music, and although we didn't see each other for another three months (time enough for her to sell her debut novel, "Mostly Good Girls" -- out October 5th), I remembered her being unnervingly funny.”
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“Ben, you forgot to mention that leslie's ally and proxy, ken longmyer, dominated in mason in the 2006 primary for the 11th district.”
“So I looked at their small plate menu and found something they call mason jars.”
“You left out the biggest plus: the sweet tea (with mint) comes in mason jars.”
“I buy a lot of things by bulk and store them in mason jars, so that cuts down a bit.”
“The bricks the mason is using for the pillars and the low wall are 2x15x7 inches.”
“In 1926 he formed his own firm dealing in mason's materials, which he subsequently merged with five other firms to form the General Builders Supply Corporation of which he was president.”
“A very fine specimen made for his own house by Tobias Baak or Bachup, master mason, is on the front wall of a house in Kirkgate, Alloa.”
“He therefore spoke quite cheerfully of the proposed restoration of a Knight Templar's tomb, which had long been in disorder, and alluded to the marble-mason from the town as being there.”
“As you know, I call a mason jar I retrieved from the trash my”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mason’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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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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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 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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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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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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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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