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stonemason

US/ˈstoʊnˌmeɪsən/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,036 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: stonemasons

A stonemason is a craftsman who cuts and builds with stone. A skilled stonemason, the stonemason's yard, trained as a stonemason.

Cathedral work never stops, and the great churches employ them continuously to replace what weather has eaten. A banker stonemason cuts at a bench and a fixer sets the finished stone on the building.

Immanuelle · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of stonemason

  1. 1nounstonemasonA craftsman who cuts and builds with stone.B2+

    “The stonemason carved the name and dates onto the gravestone.”

stonemason is a craftsman.

Where it comes from

From stone + mason.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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stonemason in the wild

  • Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-Canadian stonemason and politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878.

    Alexander Mackenzie (politician)

  • At Wollaton he was clearly more a "surveyor" (the term at that time for an architect) than a stonemason, and was in charge of overall construction.

    Robert Smythson

  • Thomas Cartwright was a 17th-century English stonemason, building contractor and sculptor.

    Thomas Cartwright (stonemason)

  • Vgo, or Ugo, for "Hugues", was a stonemason active in Provence during the twelfth century.

    Vgo (stonemason)

  • A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby, he was a stylish rider and five times winner of the Isle of Man TT.

    Freddie Frith

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.