Goldsmith

Word GOLDSMITH
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Hyphenation gold smith
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Definitions and meanings of "Goldsmith"

What do we mean by goldsmith?

An artisan who fashions objects of gold. noun

A trader or dealer in gold articles. noun

An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold; a worker in gold. noun

In entomology, a goldsmith-beetle. noun

An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold. noun

A banker. noun

A large, bright yellow, American beetle (Cotalpa lanigera), of the family Scarabæidæ noun

A person who forges things out of gold, especially jewelry. noun

A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely). noun

An artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold noun

Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774) noun

A person who makes, repairs or sells things out of gold, especially jewelry.

A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).

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The word "goldsmith" in example sentences

So she equipped herself and setting out, traversed the wastes and spent treasures till she came to Sistan, where she called a goldsmith to make her somewhat of ornaments. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The goldsmith was a rude, peppery fellow, who did not mince his words. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

The name of Leone Leoni is otherwise known as a goldsmith and bronze-caster. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

But, as already stated, the goldsmith was a village menial in the Maratha villages, and Sir D. Ibbetson thinks that the Jat really considers the Sunar to be distinctly inferior to himself. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)

Teenage 'goldsmith' gets two years for stealing jewellery - Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenage "goldsmith" who admitted that he conned persons ❋ Stabroek Staff (2010)

Indeed he may be said never to have relinquished his connection with the trade, and certainly he was no more ashamed of it than of his calling as a painter, for he signed himself indiscriminately 'goldsmith' and 'painter,' and sometimes whimsically put 'goldsmith' to his paintings and 'painter' to his jewellery. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

"goldsmith" — it was there, no doubt, that he learned the art of printing books. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In 1565, Eliseus Libaerts, a Flemish goldsmith working in the French Mannerist style, created a horse-and-rider ensemble for Erik XIV of Sweden, who never got to wear his splendiferous outfit. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

The son of a goldsmith, he was trained as an architectural painter at Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2012)

Amit Dave/Reuters A goldsmith displayed gold rings at his workshop in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Dec. 7, 2010. ❋ Swansy Afonso (2011)

Left, a goldsmith displayed gold rings at his workshop in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Dec. 7, 2010. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Serpentina: Snake Jewellery from around the World" (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, November 2011) by art historian and master goldsmith Fritz Falk accompanies an exhibition devoted to the subject at the Jewelry Museum in Pforzheim, Germany (until Feb. 26). ❋ Margaret Studer (2012)

MD says: tangential to what the commenters seem to be interested in, but harvard law tends to be happy with professors who go back and forth between washington and cambridge (e.g. charles fried, stephen breyer) and elena kagan seemed to keep that tradition in her hiring (e.g. jack goldsmith, jody freeman). it seems the lesson is not only about people being better at one job than another, but better in one place than another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the printed word were the guardian of all democratic values, how is it that the country where, in 1439, a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press succumbed almost 500 years later to a totalitarian hell, in which books, and the knowledge in them, were suppressed with a relatively small number of bonfires? ❋ Unknown (2012)

Jacqueline Kathleen Mina, goldsmith and jeweller, for serv art. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was not a public humiliation that was troubling me, because there was really no one lining up behind me to witness this, but I was in utter dismay for being unable to uphold the values that my parents hammered into me over the years like a goldsmith patiently working on a piece of jewelry. ❋ Fahad Faruqui (2011)

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