craftsman

[ krafts-muhn, krahfts- ]

/ ˈkræfts mən, ˈkrɑfts- /

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noun, plural crafts·men.

a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.

an artist.

OTHER WORDS FOR craftsman

1 artificer, handicraftsman.

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Origin of craftsman

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English craftes man “man of skill,” earlier craftman; compare Old English cræftiga “craftsman, workman” (derivative of cræftig “skilled”; see crafty)

usage note for craftsman

See -man.

OTHER WORDS FROM craftsman

crafts·man·like, adjectivecrafts·man·ly, adjectivecrafts·man·ship, noun

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How to use craftsman in a sentence

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
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When those craftsmen who produce them go out of business those things disappear.
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And the use of the [lines at the bottom], I had been a technical craftsmen.
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According to Pallas, it is becoming more difficult to find such craftsmen.
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Ivory was a treasured material that was worked on by craftsmen of the highest order during the Renaissance ….
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Following the War between the States and its resulting poverty, many of the skills of the earlier craftsmen seemed to disappear.
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These latter it left to be dealt with by the new companies into which the craftsmen were beginning to amalgamate.
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Some of the designs favoured by Spanish craftsmen were gruesome in the extreme.
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In making these continental craftsmen seem to have excelled.
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The writer of the letter from Bombay, signed Ormont, was a born subject for the antithetical craftsmen's tricky springes.
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British Dictionary definitions for craftsman

craftsman

/ (ˈkrɑːftsmən) /

noun plural -men

a member of a skilled trade; someone who practises a craft; artisan

Also called: (fem) craftswoman an artist skilled in the techniques of an art or craft

Derived forms of craftsman

craftsmanlike, adjectivecraftsmanly, adjectivecraftsmanship, noun

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