Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artisan who fashions objects of gold.
- noun A trader or dealer in gold articles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold; a worker in gold.
- noun In entomology, a goldsmith-beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.
- noun obsolete A banker.
- noun (Zoöl.) a large, bright yellow, American beetle (
Cotalpa lanigera ), of the familyScarabæidæ
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who forges things out of
gold , especially jewelry. - noun obsolete A
banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money ondeposit , being equipped to keep it safely).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold
- noun Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)
Etymologies
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Examples
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So she equipped herself and setting out, traversed the wastes and spent treasures till she came to Sistan, where she called a goldsmith to make her somewhat of ornaments.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The goldsmith was a rude, peppery fellow, who did not mince his words.
Mistress Wilding Rafael Sabatini 1912
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The name of Leone Leoni is otherwise known as a goldsmith and bronze-caster.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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The name of Leone Leoni is otherwise known as a goldsmith and bronze-caster.
CXXV 1909
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But, as already stated, the goldsmith was a village menial in the Maratha villages, and Sir D. Ibbetson thinks that the Jat really considers the Sunar to be distinctly inferior to himself.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Teenage 'goldsmith' gets two years for stealing jewellery - Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenage "goldsmith" who admitted that he conned persons
Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010
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Teenage 'goldsmith' gets two years for stealing jewellery - Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenage "goldsmith" who admitted that he conned persons
Stabroek News 2010
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The name of Leone Leoni is otherwise known as a goldsmith and bronze-caster.
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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Indeed he may be said never to have relinquished his connection with the trade, and certainly he was no more ashamed of it than of his calling as a painter, for he signed himself indiscriminately 'goldsmith' and 'painter,' and sometimes whimsically put 'goldsmith' to his paintings and 'painter' to his jewellery.
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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"goldsmith" — it was there, no doubt, that he learned the art of printing books.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
sionnach commented on the word goldsmith
Irish Poets: Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith wrote Deserted Village,
Now again reduced to tillage;
Once happiest village of the plain,
Place now you look for it in vain;
There but one man he doth make rich,
And hundreds struggle in the ditch;
"I'll fare (sic) the land to many ills a prey
Where wealth accumelates (sic) but men decay."
His honest Vicar of Wakefield
Forever he will pleasure yield.
James McIntyre.
June 6, 2009