Word Meanings - HOUSEBUILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• BUILDING
  1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• BUILD
  bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• REBUILD
  To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
• UNBUILD
  To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• OUTBUILDING
  A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
• JERRY-BUILDER
  A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.
• UNDERBUILDING
  See SUBSTRUCTION
• HOUSEBUILDER
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.