ar·chi·tect

(är′kĭ-tĕkt′)

1. One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.

2. One that plans, devises, or organizes something: a country that was the war's chief architect.

tr.v. ar·chi·tect·ed, ar·chi·tect·ing, ar·chi·tects Informal

To plan, organize, and bring to fruition: architected a web-based application.

[Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektōn : arkhi-, archi- + tektōn, builder; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]

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architect

(ˈɑːkɪˌtɛkt)

1. (Architecture) a person qualified to design buildings and to superintend their erection

2. (Professions) a person qualified to design buildings and to superintend their erection

3. (Architecture) a person similarly qualified in another form of construction: a naval architect.

4. (Professions) a person similarly qualified in another form of construction: a naval architect.

5. any planner or creator: the architect of the expedition.

(tr) to plan or create (something, esp a computer system)

[C16: from French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektōn director of works, from archi- + tektōn workman; related to tekhnē art, skill]

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ar•chi•tect

(ˈɑr kɪˌtɛkt)

n.

1. a person who engages in the profession of architecture.

2. a person professionally engaged in the design of certain constructions other than buildings: landscape architect.

3. planner; deviser; creator: the architects of the report.

[1555–65; < Latin architectus < Greek architéktōn= Greek archi- archi- + tektōn builder]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

architect - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

designer

creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things

landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist - someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively

Ithiel Town, Town - United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)

architect

noun

1. designer, planner, draughtsman, master builder Employ an architect to make sure the plans comply with regulations.

2. creator, father, shaper, engineer, author, maker, designer, founder, deviser, planner, inventor, contriver, originator, prime mover, instigator, initiator the country's chief architect of economic reform

Quotations
"architect: one who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]

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architect

noun

One that creates, founds, or originates:

author, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch.

Translations

مِعْمَاريّمُهَنْدِس مِعْماري

architekt

arkitekt

Architekt Architektin

αρχιτέκτονας

arquitecto

arkkitehtisuunnittelija

architecte

arhitekt

építészépítészmérnök

arkitekt

architetto

建築家

건축가

architektasarchitektūraarchitektūrinis

arhitekts

architect

arkitekt

architekt

arquitetararquiteto

архитектор зодчий

architekt

arhitekt

arkitekt

สถาปนิก

mimar

kiến trúc sư

建筑师

architect

[ˈɑːkɪtekt] N

1. (= professional) → arquitecto/a m/f

2. (fig) → artífice mf
the architect of victory → el artífice de la victoria

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architect

[ˈɑː^rkɪtɛkt] n

(= building designer) → architecte m/f
She's an architect → Elle est architecte.

[reform, plan] → architecte m/f

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architect

n (lit, fig) → Architekt(in) m(f); architect-designed → von (einem) Architekten entworfen; he was the architect of his own downfall → er hat seinen Ruin selbst verursacht

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architect

[ˈɑːkɪˌtɛkt] n → architetto

architect

(ˈaːkitekt) noun

a person who designs buildings etc.

ˈarchitecture (-tʃə) noun

the art of designing buildings. He's studying architecture; modern architecture.

ˌarchiˈtectural adjective

architect

→ مِعْمَاريّ architekt arkitekt Architekt αρχιτέκτονας arquitecto arkkitehti architecte arhitekt architetto 建築家 건축가 architect arkitekt architekt arquiteto архитектор arkitekt สถาปนิก mimar kiến trúc sư 建筑师

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An architect of good taste amputated it (1787), and considered it sufficient to mask the wound with that large, leaden plaster, which resembles a pot cover.

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At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by a strange caprice of his employer's was admitted to table though the position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly not have caused him to expect that honor.

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"That's the house for the doctor and the dispensary," answered Vronsky, seeing the architect in a short jacket coming towards him; and excusing himself to the ladies, he went to meet him.

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Two men, the one an architect and the other an archaeologist, met on the steps of the great house at Prior's Park; and their host, Lord Bulmer, in his breezy way, thought it natural to introduce them.

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He was employed in the office of an architect. He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed--though he would not have dared to admit it in New York--that the Flatiron Building was inferior to design to the great cathedral in Milan.

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I feel myself at the mercy of the first whim in the Vanstone direction which may come into her head -- I, the architect of her fortunes.

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Thus property is as an instrument to living; an estate is a multitude of instruments; so a slave is an animated instrument, but every one that can minister of himself is more valuable than any other instrument; for if every instrument, at command, or from a preconception of its master's will, could accomplish its work (as the story goes of the statues of Daedalus; or what the poet tells us of the tripods of Vulcan, "that they moved of their own accord into the assembly of the gods "), the shuttle would then weave, and the lyre play of itself; nor would the architect want servants, or the [1254a] master slaves.

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The architect who designed it must have been a genius, though I cannot help thinking that his talents would have been better employed in contriving puzzles than in shaping human habitations.

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There are the prospectuses that couldn't be distributed, and the architect's plans and estimates, and the whole correspondence which set everybody at loggerheads and ended in a dispute, all down together in that corner, behind the packing-cases.

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Thus it is observable that the buildings which a single architect has planned and executed, are generally more elegant and commodious than those which several have attempted to improve, by making old walls serve for purposes for which they were not originally built.

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"Good," said Aramis to himself, "it seems I am an architect, then.

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Him a facetious, vacationing architect's clerk dubbed Noah, and so greeted him.

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