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architect - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
- noun One that plans, devises, or organizes something.
- transitive verb To plan, organize, and bring to fruition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or whose profession it is to form plans and designs of buildings and superintend the execution of them.
- noun One who plans, designs, or consummates any complex thing: as, the supreme Architect of the universe; he is the architect of his own fortunes.
- noun One who contrives, devises, or plots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
- noun A contriver, designer, or maker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A professional who designs
buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction. - noun A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- verb transitive To
design ,plan , ororchestrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektōn : arkhi-, archi- + tektōn, builder; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle French architecte, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitektōn, "master builder"), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, "chief") + τέκτων (tektōn, "builder").
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Examples
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“I am very annoyed at the current usage of the term architect,” writes Fran Read, who is one.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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“I am very annoyed at the current usage of the term architect,” writes Fran Read, who is one.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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PS: I prefer the term architect over engineer, unless you like to be formal then it's CTO
Planet Mozilla 2008
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PS: I prefer the term architect over engineer, unless you like to be formal then it's CTO
Planet Mozilla 2008
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Either the architect is a liar who should be prosecuted for shoddy construction, or the buildings were taken down by demolition charges for dramatic effect and to cover up evidence?
Think Progress » Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran 2006
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I spoke to an architect from a leading design firm at the RIBA recently, and he was adamant that a large multi-disciplinary consultancy had no need to interact with co-professionals from other firms through social networks – “our in-house resources are more than adequate,” he insisted.
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I am hoping someone on the forum can share their experience/knowledge - we bought land last year (yeah!) and have just reached the point where our architect is submitting the plans to the local office for planning permission.
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I am hoping someone on the forum can share their experience/knowledge - we bought land last year (yeah!) and have just reached the point where our architect is submitting the plans to the local office for planning permission.
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Deffintely the architect is less responsable for an asked service than a sick system that could induce such a stupid client-request.
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Simon Conder, a British architect, is responsible for this beautiful conversion of a group of farm
Old Dairy Barn Converted Into an Eco Home Filled With Rustic Charm | Inhabitat 2010
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synonyms (83)
Words with the same meaning
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- actor
- agent
- ancestors
- apprentice
- artificer
- artist
- author
- begetter
- beginner
- builder
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- contriver
- craftsman
- creator
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- developer
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- enterpriser
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- executant
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- founder
- framer
- generator
- grower
- inaugurator
- industrialist
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- institutor
- introducer
- inventor
- journeyman
- landscape architect
- landscape gardener
- maker
- manufacturer
- master
- master builder
- master craftsman
- medium
- mother
- mover
- operant
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- organizer
- originator
- past master
- patriarch
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- planner
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- realizer
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- urbanist
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Words that are more generic or abstract
hyponyms (155)
Words more specific or concrete
- Aalto
- Adam
- Bernini
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- Brunelleschi
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- Chambers
- Delorme
- Gaudí
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- Jones
- Kahn
- L'Enfant
- Latrobe
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- Leonardo
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- Lin
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- McKim
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- Mills
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- adolf loos
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- andrea palladio
- antonio gaudi
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- behrens
- benjamin henry latrobe
- berlage
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- donato bramante
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- edward durell stone
- eero saarinen
- eliel saarinen
- erich mendelsohn
- filippo brunelleschi
- francois mansart
- frank lloyd wright
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- giotto di bondone
- giovanni lorenzo bernini
- hendrik petrus berlage
- henri clemens van de velde
- henri labrouste
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- henry hobson richardson
- hugo alvar henrik aalto
- hunt
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- inigo jones
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- jacques germain soufflot
- james wyatt
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- kenzo tange
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- landscape architect
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- otto wagner
- pei
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- philibert de l'orme
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- pier luigi nervi
- pierre charles l'enfant
- pugin
- r. buckminster fuller
- richard buckminster fuller
- richard morris hunt
- richard upjohn
- robert adam
- robert charles venturi
- robert mills
- robert venturi
- sir christopher wren
- sir edwin landseer luytens
- sir edwin lutyens
- sir john vanbrigh
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- sir william chambers
- soufflot
- stanford white
- stone
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- thomas hastings
- town
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- victor horta
- walter gropius
- white
- william butterfield
- william chambers
- william le baron jenny
- william strickland
- william thornton
- wren
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TankHughes commented on the word architect
"...from the way we architect our services." As heard in the 3 hour meeting I just got out of.
May 13, 2015