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body builder

body builder is the alternative form of body-builder.

Meaning of body-builder

Noun

body-builder (plural body-builders)

  1. Something that is beneficial to the body.
    • Do not imagine I am not in sympathy with the game. I am, most heartily, with this and most out-of-door sports. I am only combating a prevailing belief that they are beneficial body-builders.1886 April 6, Mary E. Allen, “Gymnastics for Women”, in Boston Evening Transcript, volume LIX, number 18,082, Boston, Mass., page 6, column 3
  2. One who builds vehicle bodies.
    • WANTED, a good BODY-BUILDER and WHEEL-WRIGHT.1867 January 14, “Situations Vacant and Wanted”, in The Age, number 3808, Melbourne, Vic., page 1, column 5

Forms of body builder

pluralbody builders

Questions about body builder

What is body builder the alternative form of?
Body builder is the alternative form of body-builder.

Words near body builder in the dictionary

  1. body box
  2. body boxes
  3. body broker
  4. body brokering
  5. body brokers
  6. body builder
  7. body builders
  8. body butter
  9. body butters
  10. body cam
  11. body camera

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Adapted from Wiktionary: body builder (page history and authors); body-builder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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