Usually means: Skilled worker who builds structures.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word carpenter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpenter: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpenter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpenter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpenter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carpenter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carpenter, carpenter: Wordnik
  7. carpenter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carpenter, carpenter: Wiktionary
  9. carpenter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carpenter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carpenter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carpenter, carpenter: Dictionary.com
  13. carpenter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. carpenter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Carpenter (crater), Carpenter (disambiguation), Carpenter (occupation), Carpenter (surname), Carpenter (theatre), Carpenter, The Carpenter (John Conlee song), The Carpenter (Nightwish song), The Carpenter (The Avett Brothers album), The Carpenter (album), The Carpenter (film), The Carpenter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Carpenter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. carpenter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. carpenter: Rhymezone
  19. carpenter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. carpenter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. carpenter: FreeDictionary.org
  22. carpenter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. carpenter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. carpenter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. carpenter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpenter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carpenter: Easton Bible
  2. Carpenter: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Carpenter, carpenter: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See carpentered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
noun:  (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
noun:  A two-wheeled carriage.
noun:  (zoology) A carpenter bee.
noun:  (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  Synonym of Long Island, Alabama.
noun:  A ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
noun:  A township in Jasper County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
noun:  A township in Itasca County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
noun:  A former settlement in Grant County, New Mexico.
noun:  An unincorporated community including Carpenter Historic District in Wake County, North Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Rolette County, North Dakota.
noun:  A township in Steele County, North Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Roger Mills County and Custer County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clark County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Laramie County, Wyoming.

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