DRAUGHTSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draughtsman mean? 

• DRAUGHTSMAN (noun)
  The noun DRAUGHTSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines

  Familiarity information: DRAUGHTSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAUGHTSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

draftsman; draftsperson; draughtsman

Hypernyms ("draughtsman" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

 Context examples 

The senior clerk and draughtsman, Mr. Sidney Johnson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The incident is so impressed on my remembrance, that if I were a draughtsman I could draw its form here, I dare say, accurately as it was that day, and little Em'ly springing forward to her destruction (as it appeared to me), with a look that I have never forgotten, directed far out to sea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)