EGAVE

architect

About 8.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
    Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect.
  2. noun A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
    Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  3. noun An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
  4. verb To design, plan, or orchestrate.
    He architected the military coup against the government.

Similar words

designer contractor engineer construction architecture craftsman artisan architectural maker developer

Often followed by

of and to who in was or is for

Word family

architects

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