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cordwainer

cordwainer noun: a shoemaker.

Noun

cordwainer (countable and uncountable, plural cordwainers)

  1. (archaic, countable) A shoemaker.
  2. (countable) A worker in cordwain leather.
  3. A leather from Córdoba.
  4. (countable) A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company.
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cordwainer meaning in Tamil

cordwainer in Tamil

புதைமிதி செய்பவர்

Forms of cordwainer

pluralcordwainers

Origin of cordwainer

From Middle English cordewainer, cordewaner, from Anglo-Norman cordewaner, from Old French cordoan (“(leather) of Cordova”). See also cordovan, itself borrowed from Spanish Córdoba.

Questions about cordwainer

What does cordwainer mean?
Cordwainer means a shoemaker.
What is cordwainer in Tamil?
Cordwainer in Tamil is புதைமிதி செய்பவர். See Cordwainer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cordwainer?
Cordwainer is a noun.
What is the plural of cordwainer?
The plural of cordwainer is cordwainers.

Words near cordwainer in the dictionary

  1. corduroyed
  2. corduroying
  3. corduroylike
  4. corduroys
  5. cordwain
  6. cordwainer
  7. cordwainers
  8. cordwainery
  9. cordwaining
  10. cordwains
  11. cordwood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cordwainer (page history and authors); cordwainer (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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