GOLDSMITH

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• GOLDSMITH (noun)
  The noun GOLDSMITH has 2 senses:

1. an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold

2. Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)

  Familiarity information: GOLDSMITH used as a noun is rare.

• GOLDSMITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gold-worker; goldsmith; goldworker

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

jeweler; jeweller; jewelry maker (someone who makes jewelry)

Instance hyponyms:

Faberge; Peter Carl Faberge (Russian goldsmith noted for creating a series of jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for European royalty (1846-1920))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Goldsmith; Oliver Goldsmith

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

The goldsmith lived more than 3,000 years ago.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

The goldsmith was in his workshop making a gold chain, when he heard the song of the bird on his roof.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

What Fanny told her of former times dwelt more on her mind than the pages of Goldsmith; and she paid her sister the compliment of preferring her style to that of any printed author.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In Touraine I got nothing save a broken pate, but at Vierzon I had a great good fortune, for I had a golden pyx from the minster, for which I afterwards got nine Genoan janes from the goldsmith in the Rue Mont Olive.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman's axe, instead of the old broken handle.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"You are like a murderer—you are like a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!" I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, etc. Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Here is the chain, take it,” said the goldsmith.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Egypt announced the discovery of a pharaonic tomb in the southern city of Luxor belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)