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crafts·man

(krăfts′mən)

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

crafts′man·like′ adj.

crafts′man·ly adj.

crafts′man·ship′ n.

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craftsman

(ˈkrɑːftsmən)

n, pl -men

1. (Crafts) a member of a skilled trade; someone who practises a craft; artisan

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

ˈcraftsmanˌlike adj

ˈcraftsmanly adj

ˈcraftsmanˌship n

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crafts•man

(ˈkræfts mən, ˈkrɑfts-)

n., pl. -men.

1. a person who is skilled in a craft; artisan.

2. an artist.

[1325–75]

crafts′man•like`, adj.

crafts′man•ly, adj.

crafts′man•ship`, n.

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Noun	1.	craftsman - a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman" professional, professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions
	2.	craftsman - a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen" crafter creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
	3.	craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft artisan, journeyman, artificer beautician, cosmetician - someone who works in a beauty parlor bookbinder - a worker whose trade is binding books bricklayer - a craftsman skilled in building with bricks clockmaker, clocksmith - someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches coachbuilder - a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles construction worker, hard hat - a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. barrel maker, cooper - a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs coppersmith - someone who makes articles from copper currier - a craftsman who curries leather for use diemaker, diesinker, die-sinker - someone who makes dies glassblower - someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass glassworker, glazer, glazier, glass cutter, glass-cutter - someone who cuts flat glass to size goldbeater, gold-beater - an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf hairdresser, hairstylist, styler, stylist - someone who cuts or beautifies hair luthier - a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins) machinist, mechanic, shop mechanic - a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools stonemason, mason - a craftsman who works with stone or brick miller - someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) paperer, paperhanger - one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper pipe fitter, plumber - a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances ceramicist, ceramist, potter, thrower - a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln rigger - someone who rigs ships roofer - a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs ropemaker, rope-maker, roper - a craftsman who makes ropes skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills steamfitter - a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating tanner - a craftsman who tans skins and hides animal stuffer, stuffer, taxidermist - a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display upholsterer - a craftsman who upholsters furniture weaver - a craftsman who weaves cloth welder - joins pieces of metal by welding them together window dresser, window trimmer - someone who decorates shop windows woodworker, woodman, woodsman - makes things out of wood wright - someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

craftsman

noun skilled worker, artisan, master, maker, wright, technician, artificer, smith The table in the kitchen was made by a local craftsman.

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Translations

حِرَفيّصانِع، صاحِب حِرْفَه يَدَويّه

řemeslníkumělecmistr

håndværkerkunsthåndværker

Handwerker Kunsthandwerker Facharbeiter

χειροτέχνης

artesano

ammattimieskäsityöläinen

artisan

zanatlija

handverksmaîur

artigiano artefice artéfice

職人

장인

ambachtsman vakman

dyktig fagperson håndverker kunsthåndverker

rzemieślnik

artesão

ремесленник

rokodelec

hantverkare

ช่างฝีมือ

sanatkâr usta

thợ thủ công

工匠

craftsman

[ˈkrɑːftsmən] N (craftsmen (pl)) → artesano m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

craftsman

[ˈkrɑːftsmən] n → artisan m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

craftsman

n pl <-men> → Kunsthandwerker m; he’s a real craftsman → er ist ein echter Künstler

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

craftsman

[ˈkrɑːftsmən] n (-men (pl)) → artigiano

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

craft

(kraːft) noun

1. an art or skill. the craft of wood-carving.

2. (plural craft) a boat or ship. sailing craft.

3. cunning or trickery. craft and deceit.

ˈcrafty adjective

cunning and sly.

ˈcraftily adverb

ˈcraftiness noun

ˈcraftsman (ˈkraːftsmən) noun

a person skilled at making things (especially by hand).

ˈcraftsmanship (ˈkraːfts-) noun

craftsman

→ حِرَفيّ řemeslník håndværker Handwerker χειροτέχνης artesano ammattimies artisan zanatlija artigiano 職人 장인 ambachtsman håndverker rzemieślnik artesão ремесленник hantverkare ช่างฝีมือ usta thợ thủ công 工匠

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Thorough unity, either in the whole or in the separate stories so loosely woven together, could not be expected; in continual reading the long succession of similar combat after combat and the constant repetition of stereotyped phrases become monotonous for a present-day reader; and it must be confessed that Malory has little of the modern literary craftsman's power of close-knit style or proportion and emphasis in details.

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It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

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The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life." The legislator is a craftsman whose material is society and whose aim is the good life.

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If, on the other hand, he should have hardened his heart against him, he could only go on his way and do the best he might by his skill as a craftsman and a scrivener.

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Out shuffled the lama to the main hall, and, the Curator beside him, went through the collection with the reverence of a devotee and the appreciative instinct of a craftsman.

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And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.

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Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit?

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"Now, by'r Lady!" cried the Tinker hastily, and in a deep voice like an angry bull, "thou didst see me come into thine inn, I, a staunch, honest craftsman, and never told me who my company was, well knowing thine own self who he was.

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A craftsman etches 'okir' designs on a 'gadur'made of jackfruit wood.

THE GONG AND THE KRIS: IN LANAO, THE ART OF THE METALSMITH LIVES

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