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name
An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made carts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Wainwright, Wainman
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
A village in Manitoba, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in North Dakota, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Wood County, Texas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A placename, from the surname:
A suburb in south-west Sydney in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A craftsman who makes carts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Synonyms: cartmaker, wagonwright, waggonwright, wainwright, wagonbuilder, wagonmaker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wright, craftsman, person
noun
a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wright
noun
English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Edmund Cartwright
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inventor, discoverer, artificer
History
English surname, from the nouns cart + wright (“maker, crafter”). As a Dutch surname, variant of Courtwright. The settlement in Labrador was named by British military officer, entrepreneur and author George Cartwright (1739/1740 – 1819), who established a fish and fur trading business at the location of the settlement.
From Middle English cartewright, kartwryght, equivalent to cart + wright.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
