mason

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Old Low Frankish *mattio, from Proto-Germanic *maitōn (compare German obsolete Metz, Steinmetz), from *maitanan (“to cut, hew”) (compare Old High German meizan, East Frisian matje, Old Norse meita), from Proto-Indo-European *mai-d- (“to alter”) (compare Old Lithuanian apmaitinti (“to wound”), Latvian màitât (“to spoil, destroy”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“to change, exchange”). More at mean, mutate.

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• Rhymes: -eɪsən

Noun

mason (plural masons)

1. One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
2. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

Translations

one who builds with stone or brick

• Arabic: بناء (ar) (bannāʾ) m
• Armenian: քարտաշ (hy) (k'artaš)
• Basque: igeltsero (eu)
• Bulgarian: зидар (bg) (zidar) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石匠 (cmn) (shíjiàng), 石工 (cmn) (shígōng)

• Czech: zedník (cs) m
• Dutch: metselaar m, (Flemish) metser m
• Finnish: muurari (fi)
• French: maçon (fr) m
• German: Maurer (de) m
• Greek: κτίστης (el) (ktístis) m, λιθοδόμος (el) (lithodómos) m

• Hungarian: kőműves (hu)
• Irish: saor (ga) m
• Japanese: 石工 (ja) (いしく, ishiku)
• Korean: 석공 (ko) (seok-gong) (石工 (ko))
• Polish: kamieniarz (pl) m, murarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedreiro (pt) m
• Russian: каменщик (ru) (kámenščik) m, масон (ru) (masón) m (rare in this sense)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зѝда̄р (sh) m

  Roman: zìdār (sh) m

• Spanish: albañil (es) m

Freemason — see Freemason

Derived terms

• mason bee
• mason wasp
• masonry
• mason moth
• mason shell

Verb

mason (third-person singular simple present masons, present participle masoning, simple past and past participle masoned)

1. (transitive) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

Translations

to build stonework or brickwork

• Finnish: muurata (fi)

Anagrams

• moans
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Noun

mason sg

1. accusative singular of maso