mason
Meanings
Plural: masons
Noun
- American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)
- English film actor (1909-1984)
- English writer (1865-1948)
- a craftsman who works with stone or brick
- a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love
- A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
- One who prepares stone for building purposes.
- A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
Verb
- To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).
Synonyms
A. E. W. Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, Freemason, George Mason, James Mason, James Neville Mason, stonemason
Scrabble Score: 7
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