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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He was a Romantic artificer of worlds in motion, who saw before anyone else that the economy itself had the majesty of a mountain range, that a steam engine had the power of a riptide.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Recently, a wizard, a druid, a cleric, a ranger, an artificer and a couple of bards met on Zoom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
The loss was acute not only because of his work’s undoubted seriousness but also because the playful side of Sebald’s originality made him a consumingly interesting and unpredictable artificer.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
The central event in this complicated legend concerns Icarus and his father Daedalus, a brilliant artificer.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013
Since my search for a patron had come to a dead end, I knew my best chance for self-sufficiency lay in becoming an artificer.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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