mason
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: masons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: masoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: masoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: masoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.
pos: noun
gloss: One who prepares stone for building purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
pos: noun
gloss: To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mason up a well or terrace
to mason in a kettle or boiler
Derived words: antimason
freemason
mason bee
masoncraft
masondom
masoness
masonhood
masonic
Masonism
mason moth
masonry
mason shell
mason wasp
masonwork
mason worm
monumental mason
nonmason
sand mason worm
stonemason
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: messelaar
lang: Albanian
word: murator
lang: Arabic
word: بَنَّاء
roman: bannāʔ
lang: Armenian
word: քարտաշ
roman: kʻartaš
lang: Assamese
word: মিস্ত্ৰী
roman: mistri
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bənna
lang: Basque
word: igeltsero
lang: Belarusian
word: му́ляр
roman: múljar
lang: Bengali
word: মিস্ত্রী
roman: mistri
lang: Bube
word: mísinna
lang: Bulgarian
word: зидар
roman: zidar
lang: Burmese
word: အုတ်စီသူ
roman: utcisu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 石匠
roman: shíjiàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 石工
roman: shígōng
lang: Czech
word: zedník
lang: Dutch
word: metselaar
lang: Dutch
word: metser
lang: Esperanto
word: masonisto
lang: Finnish
word: muurari
lang: French
word: maçon
lang: French
word: maçonne
lang: West-Frisian
word: mitselder
lang: German
word: Maurer
lang: Greek
word: κτίστης
roman: ktístis
lang: Greek
word: λιθοδόμος
roman: lithodómos
lang: Hausa
word: mēsìn
lang: Hebrew
word: בנאי
roman: banai
lang: Hungarian
word: kőműves
lang: Icelandic
word: múrari
lang: Ingrian
word: kamenšikka
lang: Irish
word: saor
lang: Italian
word: muratore
lang: Japanese
word: 石工
roman: ishiku
lang: Khmer
word: ជាងកំបោ
roman: ciəngkɑmbao
lang: Korean
word: 석공
roman: seokgong
lang: Latin
word: caementarius
lang: Latvian
word: mūrnieks
lang: Lombard
word: magut
lang: Lombard
word: murador
lang: Macedonian
word: ѕидар
roman: dzidar
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: mason
lang: Occitan
word: maçon
lang: Occitan
word: peirièr
lang: Persian
word: بنا
roman: bannâ
lang: Polabian
word: maurnĕk
lang: Polish
word: kamieniarz
lang: Polish
word: murarz
lang: Polish
word: murarka
lang: Portuguese
word: pedreiro
lang: Romanian
word: zidar
lang: Romanian
word: pietrar
lang: Romanian
word: mason
lang: Russian
word: ка́менщик
roman: kámenščik
lang: Russian
word: масо́н
roman: masón
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зѝда̄р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zìdār
lang: Sicilian
word: muraturi
lang: Slovak
word: murár
lang: Spanish
word: albañil
lang: Swedish
word: stenhuggare
lang: Tamil
word: கொத்தன்
roman: kottaṉ
lang: Tamil
word: கொற்றன்
roman: koṟṟaṉ
lang: Tamil
word: கொத்தனார்
roman: kottaṉār
lang: Turkish
word: taş ustası
lang: Turkish
word: duvarcı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دیوارجی
roman: duvarcı
lang: Ukrainian
word: му́ляр
roman: múljar
lang: Venetan
word: muràro
lang: Vietnamese
word: thợ xây
lang: Vietnamese
word: thợ nề
lang: Vietnamese
word: thợ hồ
lang: Vietnamese
word: phụ hồ