Craftsman

Pronunciation

• enPR: krăfts-mÉ™n

Origin

craft's + -man

Full definition of craftsman

Noun

1. A male artisan.
• 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. .And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

Antonyms

• craftswoman

Hypernyms

• artisan
• rare craftsperson