ELECTRICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrician mean? 

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

1. a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

electrician; lineman; linesman

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrician"):

gaffer (an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set)

 Context examples 

If she is not quite convalescent you will find that a hint that we were about to telegraph to a young electrician in the Midlands would probably complete the cure.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I find, however, a short note at the end of my manuscript dealing with this case, in which I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune, and that she is now the wife of Cyril Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous Westminster electricians.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)