name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tiler
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who sets tiles.
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noun
Meaning 3
A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Freemasonry, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 4
a worker who lays tile
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: worker
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 瓦工 (wǎgōng) — person who sets tiles
- Czech: dlaždič — person who sets tiles
- Czech: dlaždička — person who sets tiles
- Czech: obkladač — person who sets tiles
- Danish: fliselægger — person who sets tiles
- Dutch: tegelzetter — person who sets tiles
- Finnish: laatoittaja — person who sets tiles
- French: carreleur — person who sets tiles
- French: carreleuse — person who sets tiles
- German: Fliesenleger — person who sets tiles
- German: Fliesenlegerin — person who sets tiles
- German: Fliesenverleger — person who sets tiles
- German: Fliesenverlegerin — person who sets tiles
- Greek: πλακάς (plakás) — person who sets tiles
- Icelandic: flísalagningamaður — person who sets tiles
- Italian: piastrellista — person who sets tiles
- Macedonian: пло́чкар (plóčkar) — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Bokmål: fliselegger — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Bokmål: flislegger — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fliseleggar — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fliseleggjar — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flisleggar — person who sets tiles
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flisleggjar — person who sets tiles
- Polish: fliziarz — person who sets tiles
- Polish: glazurnik — person who sets tiles
- Polish: kafelkarz — person who sets tiles
- Polish: płytkarz — person who sets tiles
- Polish: terakociarz — person who sets tiles
- Romanian: țiglar — person who sets tiles
- Russian: пли́точник (plítočnik) — person who sets tiles
- Spanish: embaldosador m embaldosadora — person who sets tiles
- Spanish: solador — person who sets tiles
- Spanish: soladora — person who sets tiles
- Swedish: taktäckare — person who sets tiles
- Swedish: plattsättare — person who sets tiles
- Swedish: tegeltäckare — person who sets tiles
- Turkish: çatı ustası — person who sets tiles
- Turkish: döşemeci — person who sets tiles
- Turkish: döşeme ustası — person who sets tiles
- Turkish: fayansçı — person who sets tiles
- Turkish: kiremitçi — person who sets tiles
- Ottoman Turkish: كرمیدجی (kiremidci) — person who sets tiles
- Welsh: töwr — person who sets tiles
- Welsh: teilsiwr — person who sets tiles