carpenter
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈkɑː.pən.tə//
- United States//ˈkɑɹpəntɚ//
- United States//ˈkɑɹpəndɚ//
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
noun
- 1
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- 2
A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- 3
A two-wheeled carriage.
- 4
A carpenter bee.
The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
- 5
A woodlouse.
Etymology
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).
verb
- 1
To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
Forms
- plural
- carpenters
- past tense
- carpentered
- past participle
- carpentered
- present participle
- carpentering
- third person singular
- carpenters
carpenter · A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
Carpenter · A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade…carpet · A fabric used as a complete floor covering.carr · Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.