Other forms: craftsmen
A craftsman is a skilled worker who makes things well by hand. A master craftsman.
The skill is in the hands as much as the head, which is why it takes years rather than terms. A craftsman is judged by the parts nobody sees, which is the whole of the trade.
1nouncraftsmanA skilled worker who makes things well by hand.
“The craftsman who made that door had been dead two centuries.”
craftsman is a worker.
Middle English
craft
English
craft
English, today
craftsman
From craft + -s- + -man. craft comes from Middle English craft. Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic kraftu, from Proto-Germanic kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).
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