Builder

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈbɪl.dÉ™/
• US IPA: /ˈbɪl.dÉš/
• Rhymes: -ɪldÉ™(r)

Full definition of builder

Noun

1. A person who builds or constructs things.
2. (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
3. (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
• 1991 — Samuel Wilson Fussell, Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, ch 4In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.

Derived terms

• bodybuilder
• builder's bum
• builder's cleavage
• builder's tea
• homebuilder
• mound builder
• set-builder notation

Anagrams

• rebuild