wright

What it means

1. datedarchaic elsewhere outside compoundsA builder or maker of something.

In a sentence

In addition to the report, which the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency are using as evidence to weaken pollution rules, the administration has removed all congressionally mandated climate assessments from federal websites. Energy Sec. Chris Wright said the administration is changing those previously published assessments before they put them back on the web, CNN reported.

2025 August 8, Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, “Scientists launch coordinated response to Trump’s attempt to wipe credible climate research off the record”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2025

Where it comes from

1. Proto-West Germanic*wurhtijō
2. Old Englishwyrhta“worker, maker”
3. Middle Englishwrighte
4. Englishwright

From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Related to wrought and work. Cognate with Dutch wrecht (“worker, builder, wright”, archaic).