carpenter
Syllables: car·pen·ter/ˈkɑː.pən.tə/US/ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/
carpenter noun: a person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- Synonyms:
- joiner, chippy, timberwright, treewright, woodworker, woodwright
- A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- A carpenter bee.
- The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa, page 146
- A woodlouse.
- Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’...2015, A.D. Barber, “Vernacular names of woodlice with particular reference to Devonshire”, in Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, page 58
Verb
carpenter (third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered)
Proper noun capitalized: Carpenter
Carpenter (countable and uncountable, plural Carpenters)
- A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.
- Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.2023 May 10, Terry Ward, “Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name”, in CNN
- Synonym of Long Island, Alabama.
- Synonyms:
- Long Island, Alabama
- A ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
- A township in Jasper County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
- A township in Itasca County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
- A former settlement in Grant County, New Mexico.
- An unincorporated community including Carpenter Historic District in Wake County, North Carolina.
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- An unincorporated community in Rolette County, North Dakota.
- A township in Steele County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Roger Mills County and Custer County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Laramie County, Wyoming.
carpenter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
carpenter in Hindi
- one who practices carpentry
- काष्ठकार kāṣṭhakār, बढ़ई baṛhaī
carpenter in Tamil
- one who practices carpentry
- தச்சன் taccaṉ
carpenter in Marathi
- one who practices carpentry
- सुतार sutār
carpenter in Urdu
- one who practices carpentry
- بَڑَھئی baṛhaī, نَجَّار najjār
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- carpenter in Bengali
- সূত্রধর śutrodhor
- carpenter in Telugu
- వడ్రంగి vaḍraṅgi
- carpenter in Malayalam
- ആശാരി āśāri
- carpenter in Kannada
- ಮರಗೆಲಸದವನು, ಬಡಗಿ, ಬಡಿಗ
- carpenter in Punjabi
- ਤਰਖਾਣ tarkhāṇ
- carpenter in Gujarati
- સુતાર sutār
- carpenter in Odia
- ଦାରୁ dāru
- carpenter in Sanskrit
- तक्षन् takṣan, छेदि chedi, त्वष्टृ tvaṣṭṛ
- carpenter in Assamese
- বাঢ়ৈ barhoi, কাঠ মিস্ত্ৰী kath mistri, সূতাৰ xutar
- carpenter in Pashto
- ترکاڼ tarkāṇ, نجار najjār, دروزګر druzgár
- carpenter in Tagalog
- anluwagi, karpintero
- carpenter in Arabic
- نَجَّار najjār
- carpenter in Malay
- tukang kayu
- carpenter in Thai
- ช่างไม้ châang-máai
- carpenter in Vietnamese
- thợ mộc
- carpenter in Myanmar
- လက်သမား laksa.ma:
- Kashmiri
- چھان chān
Examples of carpenter in a sentence
- The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.
- The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.
- There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
Synonyms of carpenter
Forms of carpenter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | carpenters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | carpenters |
| present participle | carpentering |
| past participle | carpentered |
| past | carpentered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Carpenters |
Origin of carpenter
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).
From carpenter, from Latin carpentarius.
Words formed from carpenter
- carpent
- carpenter ant
- carpenter bee
- carpentering
- carpenterly
- carpenter miller
- carpenter moth
- carpenter pencil
- carpentership
- carpenter's pencil
- carpenter's plane
- carpenter's square
- carpentress
- formwork carpenter
- shuttering carpenter
Phrases with carpenter
Questions about carpenter
- What does carpenter mean?
- Carpenter means a person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- What is carpenter in Hindi?
- Carpenter in Hindi is काष्ठकार (kāṣṭhakār), बढ़ई (baṛhaī). See Carpenter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is carpenter?
- Carpenter can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce carpenter?
- Carpenter is pronounced /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of carpenter?
- The plural of carpenter is carpenters.
Words near carpenter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: carpenter (page history and authors); Carpenter (page history and authors); carpenter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଦାରୁ (Odia) (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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