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

Noun

builder (plural builders)

A person who builds or constructs things.
(trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
(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.
Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
- 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, p. 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, p. 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, p. 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

(a person who builds or constructs things): destroyer, wrecker

Coordinate terms

fabricator
maker

Derived terms

boatbuilder
bodybuilder
builder pattern
builder's bum
builder's cleavage
builder's mug
builder's tea
carbuilder
coalition builder
homebuilder
jerry-builder
master builder
mound 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 (bannāʾ), بَنَّاءَة‎‎ f (bannāʾa), مِعْمَار‎ m (miʿmār), مِعْمَارَة‎ f (miʿmāra)
Armenian: շինարար (hy) (šinarar)
Azerbaijani: inşaatçı
Bashkir: төҙөүсе (töðöwse)
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 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 (kuruluşçu), куруучу (ky) (kuruuçu)
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
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 m, empreiteira 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

Anagrams

rebuild