Meanings
plural cabinetmakers · alternative cabinet maker
- A skilled woodworker who makes high-quality wooden cabinets and furniture.
1 more example
He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishcabinet
- Proto-Germanic*makaz
- Proto-West Germanic*mak
- Proto-West Germanic*makōn?
- Old Englishmacian
- Middle Englishmaken
- Middle Englishmaker
- Englishmaker
- Englishcabinetmaker
Translations
Catalan ebenista
- ebenistaskilled woodworker
Chinese Mandarin 細木工 /细木工, 家具木工
- 細木工 /细木工 (xìmùgōng)skilled woodworker
- 家具木工 (jiāju mùgōng)skilled woodworker
- 細工木匠 /细工木匠 (xìgōng mùjiang)skilled woodworker
- 家具師 /家具师 (jiājushī)skilled woodworker
Danish snedker
- snedkerskilled woodworker
Esperanto meblisto
- meblistoskilled woodworker
Finnish hienopuuseppä, huonekalupuuseppä
- hienopuuseppäskilled woodworker
- huonekalupuuseppäskilled woodworker
French ébéniste, menuisier
- ébénisteskilled woodworker
- menuisierskilled woodworker
German Tischler, Schreiner
- Tischlerskilled woodworker
- Schreinerskilled woodworker
- Möbeltischlerskilled woodworker
Greek επιπλοποιός
- επιπλοποιός (epiplopoiós)skilled woodworker
Hungarian műbútorasztalos, műasztalos
- műbútorasztalosskilled woodworker
- műasztalosskilled woodworker
Italian ebanista
- ebanistaskilled woodworker
Japanese 建具屋, 指物師
- 建具屋 (tateguya)skilled woodworker
- 指物師 (sashimonoshi)skilled woodworker
Polish stolarz
- stolarzskilled woodworker
Portuguese ebanista
- ebanistaskilled woodworker
Romanian ebenist, ebenistă
- ebenistskilled woodworker
- ebenistăskilled woodworker
Russian столя́р, пло́тник
- столя́р (stoljár)skilled woodworker
- пло́тник (plótnik)skilled woodworker
- краснодере́вщик (krasnoderévščik)skilled woodworker
- ме́бельщик (mébelʹščik)skilled woodworker
Spanish ebanista
- ebanistaskilled woodworker
Swedish möbelsnickare
- möbelsnickareskilled woodworker
Tagalog ebanista
- ebanistaskilled woodworker
Yiddish סטאָליער
- סטאָליער (stolyer)skilled woodworker
Cite this entry
cabinetmaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabinetmaker
“cabinetmaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabinetmaker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cabinetmaker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabinetmaker.
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