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English

Etymology

From Middle English byldere, buyldere, perhaps dissimilated (with change of suffix) from Old English bylda (“builder”), equivalent to build +‎ -er. Compare also Old English bȳtla (“hammerer, builder”).

Pronunciation

Noun

builder (plural builders)

  1. A person who builds or constructs things.
  2. (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
  3. (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
    • 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder:
      In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.
  4. Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
    • 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287:
      To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed.
    • 1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46:
      A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map.
    • 2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217:
      Many users may find this easier to use as each field is clearly displayed and the user interface provides a formula builder and a Check formula function.

Synonyms

  • (a person who builds or constructs things): constructor

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “a person who builds or constructs things”): destroyer, wrecker

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

a bodybuilder — see bodybuilder

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