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Meaning of 'craft' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Craft [ n.]
- Strength; might; secret power.
- Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
- Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
- Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
- A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
2 . Craft [ v. t.]
- To play tricks; to practice artifice.

Meaning of 'craft' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . craft [ n]
Meaning (1):
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
Example in sentence:
  • as they say in the trade;
  • he represented the craft of brewers
Meaning (2):
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
Example in sentence:
  • he learned his trade as an apprentice
3 . craft [ v]
Meaning (3):
- make by hand and with much skill
Example in sentence:
  • The artisan crafted a complicated tool

Nearby Words:

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