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carpentries

carpentries is the plural of carpentry.

Meaning of carpentry

Noun

carpentry (countable and uncountable, plural carpentries)

  1. (uncountable) The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
    1. (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
  2. (countable) A carpenter’s workshop.
  3. (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
    • fine carpentry for sale

Questions about carpentries

What is carpentries the plural of?
Carpentries is the plural of carpentry.

Words near carpentries in the dictionary

  1. Carpentiers
  2. carpenting
  3. carpentings
  4. carpentress
  5. carpentresses
  6. carpentries
  7. carpentry
  8. carpentry square
  9. carpentry squares
  10. carpents
  11. carper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carpentries (page history and authors); carpentry (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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