wordcraft

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noun

Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

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Meanings

nounwordcraft (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSkill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

    It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]

    1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel
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    To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.

    2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
rhetoric

Origin

From word + -craft.

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APA

wordcraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wordcraft

MLA

“wordcraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wordcraft. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wordcraft,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wordcraft.

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