name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
craft
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-South-African, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɑːft/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkɹäːft/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkɹɐ̞ːft/
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rhymes with -ɑːft
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Canadian, General-American, Standard: /ˈkɹæft/
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rhymes with -æft
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CMU ARPABET: K R AE1 F T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Strength; power; might; force .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: potence, strength, authority, disposition, craft, force, might, potency, power, virtue
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: technique, proficiency, ability, aptitude, capacity, craft, capability, competency, competence, cunning, dexterity, ease, facility, hand, knack, list, prowess, moxie, potential, skill, talent, tekkers, touch
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: technique, proficiency, ability, aptitude, capacity, craft, capability, competency, competence, cunning, dexterity, ease, facility, hand, knack, list, prowess, moxie, potential, skill, talent, tekkers, touch, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness, abet, art, beguilement, dodge, foxship, subtlety, wile
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Occult art, magic .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: technique, proficiency, ability, aptitude, capacity, craft, capability, competency, competence, cunning, dexterity, ease, facility, hand, knack, list, prowess, moxie, potential, skill, talent, tekkers, touch, black art, goety, sorcery, bewitchery, black arts, charmwork, conjuration, conjuring, dark arts, diablerie, druidcraft, dweomercraft, dwimmer, dwimmercraft, enchantment, gypsycraft, hexcraft, hexerei, jugglery, magic, mojo, sortilege, spellcasting, spellcraft, spellwork, thaumaturgy, wandwork, warlockry, whistness, witchdom, witchery, witchcraft, witchwork, wizardry, wizardcraft, wonderworking
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A work or product of art .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A work or product of art .
Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective, countable, obsolete, plural, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: charm, talisman, dwimmer, hex, amulet, craft, fetish, juju, lucky charm, madstone, mascot, mojo, periapt, phylactery, protection, telesm, token, wanga, cantrip, chantment, enchantment, incantation, magic, magic spell, makutu, obeah, pishogue, rune, spell, spellword
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- The craft of writing plays.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural
Topics: arts, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle
Examples
- The carpenter's craft.
- He learned his craft as an apprentice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: art, trade, handicraft, business, profession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- She represented the craft of brewers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: plural craft
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: plural craft
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British-Royal-Navy, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: plural craft
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 16
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
A woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Qualifier: plural craft
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 17
Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 18
To make by hand and with much skill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 19
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- state crafting; the process of crafting global policing
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 20
To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 21
the skilled practice of a practical occupation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he learned his trade as an apprentice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: occupation, business, job, line of work, line
Narrower terms: airplane mechanics, auto mechanics, basketry, carpentry, woodworking, woodwork, drafting, mechanical drawing, dressmaking, electrical work, interior decoration, interior design, lumbering, masonry, oculism, painting, house painting, papermaking, piloting, pilotage, plumbing, plumbery, pottery, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, shoemaking, shoe repairing, cobbling, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling, tailoring, tool-and-die work, handicraft, mintage, tanning, typography, undertaking, upholstery, winemaking, wine making
noun
Meaning 22
a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vehicle
Narrower terms: aircraft, hovercraft, ground-effect machine, landing craft, spacecraft, ballistic capsule, space vehicle, vessel, watercraft
noun
Meaning 23
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
noun
Meaning 24
skill in an occupation or trade
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment
Narrower terms: housecraft, priestcraft, stagecraft, tradecraft, watercraft, woodcraft
noun
Meaning 25
people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he represented the craft of brewers
- as they say in the trade
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
verb
Meaning 26
make by hand and with much skill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The artisan crafted a complicated tool
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fashion, forge
Narrower terms: handcraft, filigree
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the noun craft. * Also as an English surname, from Croft in Leicestershire. * As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Swedish surname, Americanized from Kraft.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure. Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).
Across languages
Translations
185 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: արհեստ (arhest) — skill in one's work
- Bashkir: оҫталыҡ (ośtalıq) — skill in one's work
- Bulgarian: ловкост (lovkost) — skill in one's work
- Bulgarian: умение (umenie) — skill in one's work
- Dutch: vakmanschap — skill in one's work
- Finnish: ammattitaito — skill in one's work
- Galician: mestría — skill in one's work
- Galician: vértulo — skill in one's work
- Galician: habilidade — skill in one's work
- Galician: doén — skill in one's work
- Galician: arxil — skill in one's work
- Galician: xeito — skill in one's work
- German: Handwerk — skill in one's work
- Irish: ceardaíocht — skill in one's work
- Italian: abilità — skill in one's work
- Japanese: 職業 (shokugyō) — skill in one's work
- Latin: ars — skill in one's work
- Māori: mahi toi — skill in one's work
- Portuguese: habilidade — skill in one's work
- Portuguese: perícia — skill in one's work
- Russian: уме́ние (uménije) — skill in one's work
- Russian: сноро́вка (snoróvka) — skill in one's work
- Russian: иску́сство (iskússtvo) — skill in one's work
- Serbo-Croatian: за̀на̄т — skill in one's work
- Serbo-Croatian: obrt — skill in one's work
- Serbo-Croatian: zànāt — skill in one's work
- Spanish: pericia — skill in one's work
- Turkish: hüner — skill in one's work
- Turkish: beceri — skill in one's work
- Turkish: ustalık — skill in one's work
- Turkish: maharet — skill in one's work
- Ottoman Turkish: صنعت (sanʼat, zanʼat) — skill in one's work
- Ottoman Turkish: هنر (hüner) — skill in one's work
- Ukrainian: вмі́ння (vmínnja) — skill in one's work
- Ukrainian: впра́вність (vprávnistʹ) — skill in one's work
- Ukrainian: майсте́рність (majstérnistʹ) — skill in one's work
- Finnish: johtamistaito — skill in making plans and carrying them into execution
- Bulgarian: хитрост (hitrost) — cunning, shrewdness
- Dutch: gewiekstheid — cunning, shrewdness
- Esperanto: ruzeco — cunning, shrewdness
- Finnish: viekkaus — cunning, shrewdness
- Finnish: oveluus — cunning, shrewdness
- French: ruse — cunning, shrewdness
- German: Schlauheit — cunning, shrewdness
- German: Durchtriebenheit — cunning, shrewdness
- German: Gerissenheit — cunning, shrewdness
- Portuguese: engenhosidade — cunning, shrewdness
- Russian: хи́трость (xítrostʹ) — cunning, shrewdness
- Serbo-Croatian: препрѐдено̄ст — cunning, shrewdness
- Serbo-Croatian: preprèdenōst — cunning, shrewdness
- Turkish: uyanıklık — cunning, shrewdness
- Turkish: kurnazlık — cunning, shrewdness
- Turkish: zekâ — cunning, shrewdness
- Turkish: açıkgözlülük — cunning, shrewdness
- Turkish: cingözlülük — cunning, shrewdness
- Ottoman Turkish: قورنازلق (kurnazlık) — cunning, shrewdness
- Ukrainian: хи́трість (xýtristʹ) — cunning, shrewdness
- Ukrainian: лука́вство (lukávstvo) — cunning, shrewdness
- Arabic: حِرْفَة (ḥirfa) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Arabic: صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Armenian: արհեստ (arhest) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Bashkir: һөнәр (hönər) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Belarusian: рамяство (ramjastvó) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Bulgarian: занаят (zanajat) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Bulgarian: професия (profesija) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Czech: řemeslo — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Danish: håndværk — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Dutch: vak — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Dutch: stiel — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Esperanto: fako — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Esperanto: metio — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Finnish: ammattitaito — skilled practice of practical occupation
- French: métier — skilled practice of practical occupation
- German: Handwerk — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Hebrew: אֻמָּנוּת (umanút) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Hebrew: מְלָאכָה (m'lachá) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Icelandic: iðn — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Irish: ceird — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Irish: ceardaíocht — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Italian: mestiere — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Latin: ars — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Latvian: amats — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Lithuanian: amatas — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Maltese: sengħa — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Maltese: artiġjanat — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Polish: rzemiosło — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Portuguese: arte — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Portuguese: ofício — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Russian: ремесло́ (remesló) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: за̀на̄т — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: занатство — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: obrt — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: obrtništvo — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: zànāt — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Serbo-Croatian: zanátstvo — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Spanish: oficio — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Swedish: hantverk — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Swedish: slöjd — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Turkish: zanaat — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Turkish: elişi — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Turkish: beceri — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Ottoman Turkish: صنعت (sanʼat, zanʼat) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Ukrainian: ремесло́ (remesló) — skilled practice of practical occupation
- Finnish: ammattikunta — members of a trade collectively
- Finnish: kilta — members of a trade collectively
- German: Gilde — members of a trade collectively
- German: Innung — members of a trade collectively
- German: Zunft — members of a trade collectively
- Ukrainian: спі́лка (spílka) — members of a trade collectively
- Finnish: kalastusvälineet — nautical: fishing or whaling implements
- Finnish: valaanpyyntivälineet — nautical: fishing or whaling implements
- Finnish: veneet — nautical: boats, especially of smaller size than ships
- Ottoman Turkish: تكنه (tekne) — nautical: boats, especially of smaller size than ships
- Finnish: peli — figuratively: woman
- Bulgarian: плавателен съд (plavatelen sǎd) — vehicle designed for navigation
- Czech: plavidlo — vehicle designed for navigation
- Danish: fartøj — vehicle designed for navigation
- Dutch: voertuig — vehicle designed for navigation
- Dutch: toestel — vehicle designed for navigation
- Finnish: alus — vehicle designed for navigation
- French: nef — vehicle designed for navigation
- German: Fahrzeug — vehicle designed for navigation
- German: Lenkfahrzeug — vehicle designed for navigation
- Greek: σκάφος (skáfos) — vehicle designed for navigation
- Irish: árthach — vehicle designed for navigation
- Irish: bád — vehicle designed for navigation
- Irish: soitheach — vehicle designed for navigation
- Latin: ars — vehicle designed for navigation
- Norwegian Bokmål: farkost — vehicle designed for navigation
- Norwegian Nynorsk: farkost — vehicle designed for navigation
- Portuguese: nave — vehicle designed for navigation
- Spanish: nave — vehicle designed for navigation
- Swedish: farkost — vehicle designed for navigation
- Turkish: gemi — vehicle designed for navigation
- Ottoman Turkish: تكنه (tekne) — vehicle designed for navigation
- Bulgarian: занаят (zanajat) — particular kind of skilled work
- Finnish: ammatti — particular kind of skilled work
- Icelandic: iðngrein — particular kind of skilled work
- Māori: mahi-ā-rehe — particular kind of skilled work
- Bulgarian: изработвам на ръка (izrabotvam na rǎka) — to make by hand
- Catalan: fet a mà — to make by hand
- Catalan: fer a mà — to make by hand
- Danish: håndlavet — to make by hand
- Dutch: handbewerken — to make by hand
- Finnish: tehdä käsin — to make by hand
- Galician: labrar — to make by hand
- German: handgemacht — to make by hand
- Italian: confezionare — to make by hand
- Italian: creare — to make by hand
- Portuguese: confeccionar — to make by hand
- Portuguese: manufaturar — to make by hand
- Romanian: a face de mână — to make by hand
- Russian: мастерить (masteritʹ) — to make by hand
- Russian: проявля́ть мастерство́ (projavljátʹ masterstvó) — to make by hand
- Russian: изгота́вливать вручну́ю (izgotávlivatʹ vručnúju) — to make by hand
- Serbo-Croatian: ру̏чно направљено — to make by hand
- Serbo-Croatian: rȕčno napravljeno — to make by hand
- Spanish: labrar — to make by hand
- Spanish: hacer a mano — to make by hand
- Spanish: confeccionar — to make by hand
- Spanish: elaborar — to make by hand
- Spanish: hacer manualidades — to make by hand
- Turkish: yapmak — to make by hand
- Turkish: yaratmak — to make by hand
- Turkish: biçmek — to make by hand
- Ukrainian: майструва́ти (majstruváty) — to make by hand
- Danish: bygge — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Danish: konstruere — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Finnish: muotoilla — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Hungarian: létrehoz — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Hungarian: alkot — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Italian: costruire — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Italian: sviluppare — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Māori: auaha — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Portuguese: construir — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Portuguese: desenvolver — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Romanian: construi — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Spanish: construir — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Spanish: desarrollar — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Spanish: confeccionar — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Turkish: yapmak — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Turkish: yaratmak — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Turkish: kurmak — to construct, develop like craftsman
- Uzbek: yasamoq — to construct, develop like craftsman
- French: crafter — to combine different items to form a new one.
Real reading context