English Explanatory Dictionary

mason

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.
  2. One who prepares stone for building purposes.
  3. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
verb
  1. To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
name
  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a stonemason.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
  4. A town in Effingham County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Kentucky.
  6. An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
  7. A city, the county seat of Ingham County, Michigan.
  8. An unincorporated community in Houghton County, Michigan.
  9. An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada.
  10. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
  11. A city in Warren County, Ohio.
  12. An unincorporated community in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.
noun
  1. A Freemason.

Pronunciation

en-us-mason.ogg /ˈmeɪsən/

Word forms

mason masons masoning masoned

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”).

Related words

Machen

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 Gareis-Mason syndrome Mason City Mason County

Translations

Afrikaans: messelaar Albanian: murator Arabic: بَنَّاء Armenian: քարտաշ Assamese: মিস্ত্ৰী Azerbaijani: bənna Basque: igeltsero Belarusian: му́ляр Bengali: মিস্ত্রী Bube: mísinna Bulgarian: зидар Burmese: အုတ်စီသူ Chinese Mandarin: 石匠 Chinese Mandarin: 石工 Czech: zedník Dutch: metselaar Dutch: metser Esperanto: masonisto Finnish: muurari French: maçon French: maçonne West-Frisian: mitselder German: Maurer Greek: κτίστης Greek: λιθοδόμος Hausa: mēsìn Hebrew: בנאי Hungarian: kőműves Icelandic: múrari Ingrian: kamenšikka Irish: saor Italian: muratore Japanese: 石工 Khmer: ជាងកំបោ Korean: 석공 Latin: caementarius Latvian: mūrnieks Lombard: magut Lombard: murador Macedonian: ѕидар Mauritian Creole: mason Occitan: maçon Occitan: peirièr Persian: بنا Polabian: maurnĕk Polish: kamieniarz Polish: murarz Polish: murarka
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