Other forms: builders
A builder is the worker who puts up and repairs buildings. Get a builder in, the builders are here, a good builder.
In Britain the word covers the trade broadly, from the one-man firm to the main contractor, and finding a good builder is a national preoccupation. Builder's tea is strong tea with milk and usually sugar — the joke being that it is what the builder expects. Note master builder; house builder; and that build comes from the same root as the German bilden and the word bower.
1nounbuilderThe worker who puts up and repairs buildings.
“The builders are putting a new roof on the house next door.”
builder is a tradesperson.
Also accepted in games: construction worker
Middle English byldere is build plus -er, from Old English byldan, to construct, from bold, a dwelling. Bower comes from the same dwelling.
Middle English
byldere
English, today
builder
From Middle English byldere. From Middle English byldere, buyldere, from bylden + -er. by surface analysis, build + -er. Compare Old English bylda, bytla (“hammerer, builder”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA