artificer meaning

Noun: artificer  aa(r)'tifisu(r)

1. Someone who is the first to think of or make something
   - inventor, discoverer 
2. A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
   - craftsman, artisan, journeyman, craftsperson 
3. An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
   - armorer [US], armourer [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: artificers

Type of: creator, enlisted man [N. Amer], skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker

Encyclopedia: Artificer

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1. man is the artificer of his own happiness
2. man is the artificer of his own happiness
3. you have shown me the work of the real artificer-artisan
4. he is an artificer of great cunning
5. fabulous artificer, the hawklike man