architectnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɑː.kɪ.tekt/us/ˈɑːr.kə.tekt/B1 a person whose job is to design new buildings and make certain that they are built correctly
a person responsible for achieving a particular plan or aim:
Bevan was the architect of the British National Health Service.
More examples
- After years of study, Tim is now a fully-fledged architect.
- The architect has quoted £3000 to build an extension.
- She is a highly recommended architect.
- He is probably the best known living architect.
- The architect showed us the house plans that she had drawn up.
- They're the firm of architects who won the contract to design the National Museum extension.
- The architects have made imaginative use of glass and transparent plastic.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Architecture
- architectural
- architecture
- blueprint
- colonial
- design
- floor plan
- Georgian
- Gothic
- ground plan
- modernism
- modernist
- neoclassical
- plan
- rococo
- Romanesque
- vernacular
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