coppersmith

American  

[kop-er-smith] / ˈkɒp ərˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. a person who makes utensils, jewelry, etc., out of copper.

2. a crimson-breasted barbet, Megalaima haemacephala, of India, southeast Asia, and adjacent islands, characterized by the ringing, metallic sound of its note.

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coppersmith British  

/ ˈkɒpəˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. a person who works copper or copper alloys

2. an Asian barbet (a bird), Megalaima haemacephala, the call of which has a ringing metallic note

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Etymology

Origin of coppersmith

1300–50; Middle English copresmythe. See copper ¹, smith

Example Sentences

His father, a coppersmith and jeweler, settled with his family in Brooklyn a decade later.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022

As a young man, Sherman trained as a coppersmith in the US naval shipyards outside Seattle, where his dad worked as an electrician.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2016

Mr. Porter has given the museum a pair of copper cuff links that resemble African tribal masks; they were designed by Winifred Mason Chenet, a Brooklyn-born modernist coppersmith who mentored Art Smith.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2016

One day, he met a coppersmith who shared his surname.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

When their family sold Jasmine to the coppersmith on the other side of town, Ethel knew it was her mother’s doing.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead