Architect

Quick meaning: Architect is a noun meaning A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

Meaning

A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

More Meanings

1. A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
2. (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
3. (transitive) To design, plan, or orchestrate.

Example Sentences

He architected the military coup against the government.

Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect.

Dacker was his own architect, (or, as he sometimes said, he architected his own fortunes,) and his own carpenter.

Word Forms

• architects
• architecting
• architected

Synonyms for architect

Depending on context, synonyms include architector, designer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include designer, contractor, engineer, construction, architecture, craftsman.

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