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  goldsmith

  noun

  a person who makes or sells articles of gold.
• Goldsmith
  Goldsmith

  noun

  Oliver, 1730?–74, Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist.

goldsmith

¹ American  

[gohld-smith] / ˈgoʊldˌsmɪθ /

noun

goldsmiths plural

1. a person who makes or sells articles of gold.

2. (formerly) such a person also acting as a banker, moneylender, etc.

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Goldsmith ² American  

[gohld-smith] / ˈgoʊldˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. Oliver, 1730?–74, Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist.

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goldsmith ¹ British  

/ ˈɡəʊldˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. 1. a dealer in articles made of gold

   2. an artisan who makes such articles

2. (formerly) a dealer or manufacturer of gold articles who also engaged in banking or other financial business

3. (in Malaysia) a Chinese jeweller

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Goldsmith ² British  

/ ˈɡəʊldˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. Oliver. ?1730–74, Irish poet, dramatist, and novelist. His works include the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer (1773)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• goldsmiths
  plural

Etymology

Origin of goldsmith

before 1000; Middle English, Old English. See gold, smith

Example Sentences

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Inside a converted chocolate factory outside of Milan, a master goldsmith sat at a workstation, shaping a strip of metal into filigree so fine it resembled lace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

The son of a goldsmith, Yunus was born in 1940 into a well-off family in the port city of Chittagong, now Chattogram.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Reserva de la Familia Extra Añejo tequila is another great tequila option, complete with a beautiful gift box by Mexican sculptor, goldsmith, and leatherer Ana Pellicer.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

Born the son of a patrician in the early 15th century, in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg was originally trained as a goldsmith and metallurgist.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

And then he will frown and say that it is an evil thing, a slap in the faces of the gods, that the son of Thutra the goldsmith should be a stonecutter’s apprentice.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“Daraxonrasib significantly elevates the survival bar in the treatment of one of the deadliest human cancers, while better preserving quality of life compared with chemotherapy,” Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D.,

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

Catalyst Refiners Inc. is owned by New York based Ames Goldsmith, an international silver refining and fabrication company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“These results represent a potentially transformative advance for patients and underscore daraxonrasib’s potential to redefine the treatment landscape,” CEO Mark A. Goldsmith said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

At the end of Trump’s first term, the New York Times’ Peter Baker reported that Goldsmith and former Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer created a bipartisan blueprint for what such a rebuilding would require.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

In seventh class he hands out a small book, a poem that goes on for pages and pages, The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

When Captain John Smith and the British colonists first came to the Jamestown colony in Virginia in the early 17th century, he recorded two goldsmiths, a jeweler and two refiners on the ship, Gordon says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

In boomtown Seville, enslaved labor powered the artisanal workshops of goldsmiths, ceramists, carpenters, illustrators — and painters.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Many others were artisans, including goldsmiths and jewelers, unused to the hard physical labor that building a colony on a new continent required.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Cathedral restorers hope to collaborate with the Louvre for the restoration of “the Mays,” 76 large paintings of the Acts of the Apostles donated between 1630 and 1707 by Parisian goldsmiths.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021

“If I forbid them to carve stone or lay bricks, the chandlers, the weavers, and the goldsmiths will soon be at my gates asking that they be excluded from those trades as well.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin