Word.ws English Dictionary

woodworking

woodworking noun: the crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood. Also the present participle and gerund of woodwork.

Noun

woodworking (usually uncountable, plural woodworkings)

  1. (usually) The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
    • There are two woodworkings, the first being the idealized one, the woodworking of expectations, where everything turns out perfect. The spouse is pleased, each and every joint is of Krenovian perfection […]2000, Doug Stowe, Simply Beautiful Boxes, page 38
    • MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.2019 September 20, “MDF vs HDF: Understanding Differences and Best Uses in Woodworking”, in Forest Plywood

Also used as

woodworking is also the present participle and gerund of woodwork.

woodworking meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

woodworking in Tamil

மரவேலை வேலை

woodworking in Bengali

কাঠের কাজ করা

woodworking in Malayalam

മരപ്പണി, തടിപ്പണി

woodworking in Kannada

ಮರಗೆಲಸ, ಮರಗೆಲಸದ ಕೆಲಸ
More languagesFewer languages
woodworking in Punjabi
ਲੱਕਡ਼ ਦਾ ਕੰਮ, ਲੱਕਡ਼ ਦੇ ਕੰਮ, ਲੱਕਡ਼ ਦੀ ਕੰਮ
woodworking in Odia
କାଠ କାମ କରିବା

Examples of woodworking in a sentence

  • The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
  • I thought I'd try my hand at woodworking, until I saw how much the tools cost.
  • I'm doing evening classes in woodworking. Here's a bowl that I made.

All 11 example sentences with woodworking

Forms of woodworking

pluralwoodworkings

Origin of woodworking

From wood + working.

Questions about woodworking

What does woodworking mean?
Woodworking means the crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
What is woodworking in Tamil?
Woodworking in Tamil is மரவேலை வேலை. See Woodworking meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is woodworking?
Woodworking is a noun.
What is the plural of woodworking?
The plural of woodworking is woodworkings.

Words near woodworking in the dictionary

  1. woodwork
  2. woodworked
  3. woodworker
  4. woodworker's lung
  5. woodworkers
  6. woodworking
  7. woodworkings
  8. woodworks
  9. woodworm
  10. woodwormed
  11. woodworms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: woodworking (page history and authors); woodworking (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); woodworking (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); woodworking (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); woodworking (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); woodworking (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); woodworking (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “woodworking.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/woodworking. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.