builder
Meanings
Plural: builders
Noun
- a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
- a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country
- "empire builder"
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
- One who builds or constructs things.
- Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.
- Clipping of bodybuilder.
Origin / Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
Latin -ariusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
Middle English byldere
English builder
From Middle English byldere, buyldere, from bylden + -er. By surface analysis, build + -er. Compare Old English bylda, bytla (“hammerer, builder”).
Synonyms
constructor, destroyer, detergent builder, wrecker
Scrabble Score: 10
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