artificer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
artificer (plural artificers)
- Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
- ✤ And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.1
- An inventor.
- A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
- A trickster.
- A savant.
Etymology
From Middle English artificer, from Middle French artificier, from Latin artificiarius.
Pronunciation
- IPA: (US)/ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/, (US)/ɑɹtɪˈfɪsɚ/
- IPA: (UK)/ɑːˈtɪfɪsə/
- Audio (US): 🔊
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Footnotes
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1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:22: ↩