noun
Meaning 1
A person who, or thing that, constructs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: destructor
Standard Lemma guide
constructor
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /kənˈstɹʌktɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹʌktə/
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CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N S T R AH1 K T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: object-oriented programming
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: destructor
noun
Meaning 4
A person who creates crossword puzzles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: crosswording
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: setter, compiler
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: builder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contractor
Narrower terms: boatbuilder, contractor, homebuilder, home-builder, housebuilder, house-builder, jerry-builder, road builder, shipbuilder, ship builder
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh3- Proto-Indo-European *strew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stréweti Proto-Italic *strowō Latin struō Latin cōnstruō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Medieval Latin -or Medieval Latin cōnstrūctorbor. English constructor Borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnstrūctor, from Latin cōnstruō + Medieval Latin -or. By surface analysis, construct + -or.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: төҙөүсе (töźöwse) — one who constructs
- Belarusian: канстру́ктар (kanstrúktar) — one who constructs
- Czech: konstruktér — one who constructs
- Finnish: rakentaja — one who constructs
- Polish: konstruktor — one who constructs
- Polish: konstruktorka — one who constructs
- Russian: констру́ктор (konstrúktor) — one who constructs
- Russian: строи́тель (stroítelʹ) — one who constructs
- Ukrainian: констру́ктор (konstrúktor) — one who constructs
- Ukrainian: будіве́льник (budivélʹnyk) — one who constructs
- Finnish: rakentaja — in automotive: someone who builds racing vehicles
- French: écurie — in automotive: someone who builds racing vehicles
- Polish: konstruktor — in automotive: someone who builds racing vehicles
- Polish: konstruktorka — in automotive: someone who builds racing vehicles
- Bulgarian: констру́ктор (konstrúktor) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Czech: konstruktor — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Esperanto: konstruilo — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Finnish: konstruktori — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Finnish: muodostin — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Finnish: rakentaja — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- French: constructeur — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- German: Konstruktor — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Greek: κατασκευαστής (kataskevastís) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Hebrew: פעולה בונה (pe'ulah bonah) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Italian: costruttore — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Japanese: コンストラクタ (konsutorakuta) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Japanese: 構築子 (kōchikushi) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Korean: 생성자 (saengseongja) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Polish: konstruktor — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Portuguese: construtor — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Russian: констру́ктор (konstrúktor) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Swedish: konstruktor — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Ukrainian: констру́ктор (konstrúktor) — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
- Vietnamese: hàm khởi tạo — in object oriented programming: code that creates objects
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