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artificer

/ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/

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What does artificer mean?

noun

  1. Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
  2. An inventor.
  3. A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A trickster.
  2. A savant.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ɑɹtɪˈfɪsɚ/
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It is here that the ardent and "unwashed artificer," and the sturdy husbandman, compare notes and measure wits with each other.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
In other words, nous is nothing less than the omnipotent artificer of the material universe.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
More book examples (3)
Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
In so far as he works with his eye fixed upon an eternal pattern he is like the human artificer in the Republic.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy.
Richard de BuryThe Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de BuryTranslated by Ernest Chester ThomasProject Gutenberg ebook #626