Carpenter

UK: /ˈkɑːpɪntə/ US: /ˈkɑrpəntɚ/ ,(kär′pən tər)

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Carpenter / ˈkɑːpɪntə/ noun

1. 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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car•pen•ter /ˈkɑrpəntɚ/   n. [countable]

1. Building a person who practices carpentry.

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car•pen•ter  (kär′pən tər), n. 

1. Building a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.

v.i. 

2. Building to do carpenter's work.

v.t. 

3. Building to make by carpentry.
4. 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

Car•pen•ter  (kär′pən tər), n. 

1. Biographical John Alden, 1876–1951, U.S. composer.
2. Biographical (Malcolm) Scott, born 1925, U.S. astronaut and oceanographer.

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carpenter / ˈkɑːpɪntə/ noun

1. a person skilled in woodwork, esp in buildings, ships, etc

verb

1. (intransitive) to do the work of a carpenter
2. (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