Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who practices a craft with great skill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a craft; an artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A male
artisan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a creator of great skill in the manual arts
- noun a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
- noun a professional whose work is consistently of high quality
Etymologies
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Examples
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A craftsman is typically his own worst critic, that is the way it should be.
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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.
René Redzepi: 'What we eat matters. There's no conflict between a better meal and a better world' 2011
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A craftsman is typically his own worst critic, that is the way it should be.
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If you know that, and contract a goblin craftsman, you should probably expect to abide by that concept.
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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.
The Farmer 1920
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Indeed, it’s intellectual property where the cachet of a craftsman is probably gaining in currency.
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No Baghdad-trained IED craftsman is going to show up in LA or DC, but I’m not so sure about Paris or Warsaw.
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The resonant phrases, no doubt coined by Downing Street's resonant phrase craftsman, continued to roll out.
Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011
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"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.
Jonathan Lewis: Shoppers Without Borders Jonathan Lewis 2011
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The poet is a word craftsman, a master of language.
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