smith

CEFRB1

/smɪθ/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    A person who makes or repairs metal objects.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An artist.

Examples

  • In this town there's the need of a smith.

  • The doctor told Mr Smith to give up smoking if he wanted to live long.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who makes anything; wright.

  2. A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.

More examples

In context

  • The doctor told Mr Smith to give up smoking.

  • Sigurd took the very best sword That the Dwarfs had ever smithed.

  • The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.

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The blacksmith is a skilled blank who works with iron and steel.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English smeth, smith, smiþ, smið, smyth, smythe, smyþ, smyþe, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-West Germanic *smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz (“smith”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, spread”). Cognates Cognate with Alemannic German Schmid, schméd, schmét, schmìd (“smith”), Bavarian schmidt, schmit, sghmiid (“smith”), Cimbrian smit, smitt (“smith”), Dutch smid (“smith”), German Schmied, Schmidt (“smith”), Low German Smidd, Smitt (“smith”), Luxembourgish Schmadd (“smith”), Mòcheno schmi' (“smith”), Vilamovian śmejt (“blacksmith”), Yiddish שמיד (shmid, “blacksmith, smith”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish smed (“smith”), Elfdalian...