builder

English

Etymology

From Middle English byldere, buyldere, perhaps dissimilated (with change of suffix) from Old English bylda (“builder”), equivalent to build +‎ -er. Compare also Old English bȳtla (“hammerer, builder”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.də/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.dɚ/, [ˈbɪɫ.ɾɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɪldə(ɹ)

Noun

builder (plural builders)

1. A person who builds or constructs things.
2. (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
3. (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
   • 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder:

     In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.

4. Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
   • 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287:

     To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed.

   • 1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46:

     A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map.

   • 2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217:

     Many users may find this easier to use as each field is clearly displayed and the user interface provides a formula builder and a Check formula function.

Synonyms

• (a person who builds or constructs things): constructor

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "a person who builds or constructs things"): destroyer, wrecker

Coordinate terms

• fabricator
• maker

 

Derived terms

• boatbuilder
• bodybuilder
• body-builder
• bridge-builder
• builder pattern
• builder's bum
• builder's cleavage
• builder's mug
• builder's remedy
• builder's tea
• carbuilder
• city-builder
• coalition builder
• homebuilder
• jerry-builder
• master builder
• mound builder
• nation-builder
• set-builder notation
• shipbuilder

 

Translations

a person who builds or constructs things

• Afrikaans: bouer
• Aghwan: 𐕄𐕒𐕁𐔱𐔰𐔰𐔾 (ḳod'baal)
• Albanian: ndërtues (sq) m
• Arabic: بَنَّاء (ar) m (bannāʔ), بَنَّاءَة f (bannāʔa), مِعْمَار m (miʕmār), مِعْمَارَة f (miʕmāra)
• Armenian: շինարար (hy) (šinarar)
• Azerbaijani: inşaatçı
• Bashkir: төҙөүсе (töźöwse)
• Basque: eraikitzale
• Belarusian: будаўні́к m (budaŭník), будаўні́ца f (budaŭníca)
• Bulgarian: строи́тел (bg) m (stroítel), строи́телка f (stroítelka)
• Catalan: constructor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建築工人／建筑工人 (jiànzhú gōngrén), 建築工／建筑工 (jiànzhùgōng)

• Coptic: ⲉⲕⲱⲧ m (ekōt), ⲣⲉϥⲕⲱⲧ m (refkōt)
• Czech: stavitel (cs) m, stavitelka f, budovatel m, budovatelka m
• Danish: byggearbejder (da) c
• Dutch: bouwer (nl) m, bouwster f
• Estonian: ehitaja (et)
• Finnish: rakennusmies (fi)
• French: constructeur (fr) m, constructrice (fr) f, bâtisseur (fr) m, bâtisseuse (fr) f
• Galician: construtor (gl) m
• Georgian: მშენებელი (mšenebeli)
• German: (= construction worker) Bauarbeiter (de) m, Bauarbeiterin (de) f; (= master builder) Baumeister (de) m, Baumeisterin (de) f, Erbauer m, Erbauerin f
• Greek: κτίστης (el) m (ktístis)
• Hebrew: בַּנַּאי (he) m (banai)
• Hindi: निर्माता (hi) m (nirmātā), राजगीर (hi) m (rājgīr), बिल्डर m (bilḍar)
• Hungarian: építőmester (hu), ^{(please verify)} építész kivitelező
• Indonesian: pembangun (id)
• Irish: foirgneoir
• Italian: costruttore (it) m, costruttrice (it) f
• Japanese: 建設者 (けんせつしゃ, kensetsusha)
• Kazakh: құрылысшы (qūrylysşy), құрушы (qūruşy)
• Korean: 건축업자(建築業者) (geonchugeopja), 건설자(建設者) (geonseolja)
• Kyrgyz: курулушчу (kuruluşcu), куруучу (ky) (kuruucu)
• Latin: aedificātor m, aedificātrīx f
• Latvian: celtnieks m
• Lithuanian: statybininkas m
• Macedonian: градител m (graditel), градителка f (graditelka)
• Maori: kaihanga, kaiwhanga
• Middle English: byldere
• Norman: bâtisseux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bygger (no) m

  Nynorsk: byggjar m

• Occitan: constructor (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: строител҄ь m (stroitelʹĭ)

• Old English: timbrend m
• Persian: سازنده (fa) (sâzande), معمار (fa) (me'mâr)
• Polish: budowniczy (pl) m, budownicza f, budowlaniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: construtor (pt) m, construtora f, empreiteiro (pt) m, empreiteira (pt) f
• Romanian: constructor (ro) m, constructoare (ro) f
• Russian: строи́тель (ru) m (stroítelʹ), строи́тельница (ru) f (stroítelʹnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-togail m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̀дитељ m, градитѐљица f

  Roman: gràditelj (sh) m, graditèljica (sh) f

• Slovak: staviteľ m, staviteľka f, budovateľ m, budovateľka f
• Slovene: gradbinec m, gradbinka f, gradbenik m, gradbenica f, stavbenik m, stavbenica f
• Spanish: constructor m, constructora f, constructor civil m, constructora civil f
• Swahili: mjenzi (sw), mjengaji (sw)
• Swedish: byggare (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagabuo
• Tajik: бинокор (binokor), меъмор (meʾmor), созанда (sozanda)
• Thai: ผู้สร้าง (pûu-sâang), ผู้ก่อสร้าง
• Turkish: yapı kurucu, inşaatçı (tr), kurucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: будіве́льник (uk) m (budivélʹnyk), будіве́льниця (uk) f (budivélʹnycja)
• Urdu: معمار m (mi'mār), بلڈر m (bilḍar)
• Uzbek: binokor (uz), quruvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ thầu
• Volapük: (epicene) buman (vo), (male) hibuman, (female) jibuman
• Welsh: adeiladwr (cy) m, bildar (cy) m

a bodybuilder — see bodybuilder

See also

• building worker
• construction worker

Anagrams

• rebuild