Artificer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A skilled worker; a craftsperson.
  • n. One that contrives, devises, or constructs something: "The labyrinth . . . was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer” ( Thomas Bulfinch).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
  • n. An inventor.
  • n. A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
  • n. A trickster.
  • n. A savant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
  • n. One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
  • n. A cunning or artful fellow.
  • n. A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A maker; a constructor; a skilful or artistic worker; a handicraftsman; a mechanic.
  • n. One who contrives or devises; an inventor; especially, an inventor of crafty or fraudulent artifices: as, “artificer of fraud,” Milton, P. L., iv. 121; “artificer of lies,” Dryden; “let you alone, cunning artificer,”
  • n. Milit., a soldier-mechanic attached to the artillery and engineer service, whose duty it is to construct and repair military materials.
  • n. One who uses artifice; an artful or wily person.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
  • n. someone who is the first to think of or make something
  • n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
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    artisan    artist    craftsman    artizan    Daedalus   
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