craft
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Noun 4 meanings
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
“The craft of writing plays.”
A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
“The carpenter's craft.”
A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
“She represented the craft of brewers.”
Verb 3 meanings
To make by hand and with much skill.
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
“state crafting; the process of crafting global policing”
To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
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CRAFT at a glance
CRAFT has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + A 1 + F 4 + T 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,211 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with craft
All rhymes- AIRCRAFT13
- DRAFT9
- SHAFT11
- SPACECRAFT19
- GRAFT9
- RAFT7
- DAFT8
- WITCHCRAFT23
- KRAFT12
- WARCRAFT16
- OVERDRAFT16
- CRANKSHAFT22
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- DRAFT9
- GRAFT9
- KRAFT12
- CROFT10
- CRUFT10
- CHAFT13
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