artificer
Americannoun
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a person who is skillful or clever in devising ways of making things; inventor.
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a skillful or artistic worker; craftsperson.
noun
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a skilled craftsman
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a clever or inventive designer
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a serviceman trained in mechanics
Etymology
Origin of artificer
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French artificer, perhaps < Medieval Latin artificiārius; see artifice, -er 2
Example Sentences
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Second Class Engine Room Artificer Ed Buckingham was getting congratulations on his 32nd birthday.
From Time Magazine Archive
After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging.
From Time Magazine Archive
This intelligent, if somewhat unyielding study of all Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shall we strive with our pigments to outshine the sun, or teach the secrets of form to the cunning Artificer by whom the world was made?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
They are just an exquisite wall, well and truly laid, and carved with that careless cunning of the great Artificer into the likeness of some screen in Heaven.
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
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