name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
goldsmith
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɡoʊldˌsmɪθ/
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CMU ARPABET: G OW1 L D S M IH2 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who makes, repairs or sells things of gold, especially jewelry.
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noun
Meaning 3
A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: goldworker, gold-worker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: jewelry maker, jeweler, jeweller
Narrower terms: Faberge, Peter Carl Faberge
noun
Meaning 5
Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Oliver Goldsmith
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
History
Etymology
From goldsmith.
From Middle English goldsmith, from Old English goldsmiþ (“goldsmith”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþasmiþaz (“goldsmith”), equivalent to gold + smith. Cognate with Scots goldsmyth, gouldsmeth (“goldsmith”), Saterland Frisian Gouldsmid (“goldsmith”), West Frisian goudsmid (“goldsmith”), Dutch goudsmid (“goldsmith”), German Goldschmied (“goldsmith”), Danish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Swedish guldsmed (“goldsmith”), Icelandic gullsmiður (“goldsmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English orbatour, orbatur (“goldsmith”) and orfever, orfevre (“goldsmith”), both borrowed from Old French.
Across languages
Translations
107 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: arpunues — person who makes things out of gold
- Albanian: argjendar — person who makes things out of gold
- Arabic: صَائِغ (ṣāʔiḡ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Armenian: ոսկերիչ (oskeričʻ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Assamese: সোনাৰি (xünari) — person who makes things out of gold
- Azerbaijani: zərgər — person who makes things out of gold
- Belarusian: залатых спраў ма́йстар (zalatyx spraw májstar) — person who makes things out of gold
- Belarusian: залата́р (zalatár) — person who makes things out of gold
- Belarusian: злотнік (zlótnik) — person who makes things out of gold
- Belarusian: ювелі́р (juvjelír) — person who makes things out of gold
- Bulgarian: златар (zlatar) — person who makes things out of gold
- Catalan: orfebre — person who makes things out of gold
- Chinese Mandarin: 金匠 (jīnjiàng) — person who makes things out of gold
- Czech: zlatník — person who makes things out of gold
- Czech: zlatnice — person who makes things out of gold
- Danish: guldsmed — person who makes things out of gold
- Dutch: goudsmid — person who makes things out of gold
- Esperanto: oraĵisto — person who makes things out of gold
- Esperanto: oraĵistino — person who makes things out of gold
- Estonian: kullassepp — person who makes things out of gold
- Faroese: gullsmiður — person who makes things out of gold
- Finnish: kultaseppä — person who makes things out of gold
- French: orfèvre — person who makes things out of gold
- French: orfèvresse — person who makes things out of gold
- Galician: ourive — person who makes things out of gold
- Georgian: ოქრომჭედელი (okromč̣edeli) — person who makes things out of gold
- German: Goldschmied — person who makes things out of gold
- German: Goldschmiedin — person who makes things out of gold
- German: Gold- und Silberschmied — person who makes things out of gold
- German: Gold- und Silberschmiedin — person who makes things out of gold
- Greek: χρυσοχόος (chrysochóos) — person who makes things out of gold
- Ancient Greek: χρυσοχόος (khrusokhóos) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hindi: सुनार (sunār) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hindi: सुनारी (sunārī) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hindi: जरगर (jargar) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hindi: साइग (sāig) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hindi: स्वर्णकार (svarṇakār) — person who makes things out of gold
- Hungarian: aranyműves — person who makes things out of gold
- Hungarian: ötvös — person who makes things out of gold
- Icelandic: gullsmiður — person who makes things out of gold
- Italian: orafo — person who makes things out of gold
- Italian: orafa — person who makes things out of gold
- Italian: orefice — person who makes things out of gold
- Japanese: 金細工人 (kinsaikoujin) — person who makes things out of gold
- Japanese: 金銀細工職人 (kinginsaikushokunin) — person who makes things out of gold
- Japanese: 金細工師 (kinsaikushi) — person who makes things out of gold
- Khmer: ជាងមាស (cieng mieh) — person who makes things out of gold
- Korean: 금 세공인 (geum segong'in) — person who makes things out of gold
- Central Kurdish: زێڕنگەر (zêrringer) — person who makes things out of gold
- Northern Kurdish: zêrringer — person who makes things out of gold
- Lao: ຊ່າງຄໍາ (sāng kham) — person who makes things out of gold
- Latin: aurifex — person who makes things out of gold
- Latin: aurārius — person who makes things out of gold
- Latin: aurāria — person who makes things out of gold
- Latvian: zeltkalis — person who makes things out of gold
- Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧈᦆᧄ (tsaang1xam) — person who makes things out of gold
- Macedonian: златар (zlatar) — person who makes things out of gold
- Macedonian: кујунџија (kujundžija) — person who makes things out of gold
- Malay: tukang emas — person who makes things out of gold
- Malayalam: തട്ടാന് (taṭṭāṉ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Maltese: ħaddiem id-deheb — person who makes things out of gold
- Norwegian Bokmål: gullsmed — person who makes things out of gold
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gullsmed — person who makes things out of gold
- Persian: زرگر (zargar) — person who makes things out of gold
- Polish: złotnik — person who makes things out of gold
- Portuguese: ourives — person who makes things out of gold
- Portuguese: aurífice — person who makes things out of gold
- Punjabi: سُنیارا (suneyārā) — person who makes things out of gold
- Punjabi: سُنَیرا (sunairā) — person who makes things out of gold
- Romanian: aurar — person who makes things out of gold
- Russian: золоты́х дел ма́стер (zolotýx del máster) — person who makes things out of gold
- Russian: ювели́р (juvelír) — person who makes things out of gold
- Sanskrit: see Thesaurus:स्वर्णकार — person who makes things out of gold
- Scottish Gaelic: ceàrd-òir — person who makes things out of gold
- Saraiki: سُنارا (sunārā) — person who makes things out of gold
- Serbo-Croatian: zlatar — person who makes things out of gold
- Serbo-Croatian: zlatarka — person who makes things out of gold
- Slovak: zlatník — person who makes things out of gold
- Slovak: zlatníčka — person who makes things out of gold
- Spanish: orfebre — person who makes things out of gold
- Spanish: orífice — person who makes things out of gold
- Spanish: orebce — person who makes things out of gold
- Spanish: oribe — person who makes things out of gold
- Spanish: orive — person who makes things out of gold
- Sranan Tongo: gowtusmeti — person who makes things out of gold
- Swahili: mfua dhahabu — person who makes things out of gold
- Swedish: guldsmed — person who makes things out of gold
- Tagalog: panday-ginto — person who makes things out of gold
- Tamil: பொற்கொல்லன் (poṟkollaṉ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Tamil: பொன்செய்கொல்லன் (poṉceykollaṉ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Tamil: தட்டான் (taṭṭāṉ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Tamil: பொற்றட்டான் (poṟṟaṭṭāṉ) — person who makes things out of gold
- Telugu: కంసలి (kaṁsali) — person who makes things out of gold
- Thai: ช่างทอง (châang-tɔɔng) — person who makes things out of gold
- Tibetan: གསེར་བཟོ་བ (gser bzo ba) — person who makes things out of gold
- Turkish: kuyumcu — person who makes things out of gold
- Ottoman Turkish: آلتونجی (altıncı) — person who makes things out of gold
- Ukrainian: золота́р (zolotár) — person who makes things out of gold
- Urdu: سُنار (sunār) — person who makes things out of gold
- Urdu: سُناری (sunārī) — person who makes things out of gold
- Vietnamese: thợ bạc — person who makes things out of gold
- Vietnamese: thợ vàng — person who makes things out of gold
- Volapük: goldismitan — person who makes things out of gold
- Volapük: goldihismitan — person who makes things out of gold
- Volapük: goldijismitan — person who makes things out of gold
- Welsh: eurof — person who makes things out of gold
- Yiddish: גאָלדשמיד (goldshmid) — person who makes things out of gold
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