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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024car•pen•ter /ˈkɑrpəntɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Buildinga person who practices carpentry.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024car•pen•ter (kär′pən tər),USA pronunciation n. - Buildinga person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
v.i. - Buildingto do carpenter's work.
v.t. - Buildingto make by carpentry.
- to construct (a plot, scene, article, or the like) in a mechanical or unoriginal fashion.
- Celtic; compare Old Irish carpad chariot) + -ārius -ary; see -er2
- Late Latin carpentārius wainwright, equivalent. to Latin carpent(um) two-wheeled carriage (
- Anglo-French
- Middle English 1275–1325
- Biographical John Alden, 1876–1951, U.S. composer.
- Biographical (Malcolm) Scott, born 1925, U.S. astronaut and oceanographer.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: carpenter /ˈkɑːpɪntə/ n - a person skilled in woodwork, esp in buildings, ships, etc
vb - (intransitive) to do the work of a carpenter
- (transitive) to make or fit together by or as if by carpentry
Etymology: 14th Century: from Anglo-French, from Latin carpentārius wagon-maker, from carpentum wagon; of Celtic origin Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Carpenter /ˈkɑːpɪntə/ n - John Alden. 1876–1951, US composer, who used jazz rhythms in orchestral music: his works include the ballet Skyscrapers (1926) and the orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator (1915)
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