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cordwainers

cordwainers is the plural of cordwainer.

Meaning of cordwainer

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.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordwainer.

Questions about cordwainers

What is cordwainers the plural of?
Cordwainers is the plural of cordwainer.

Words near cordwainers in the dictionary

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

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