MAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maker mean? 

• MAKER (noun)
  The noun MAKER has 3 senses:

1. a person who makes things

2. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

3. a business engaged in manufacturing some product

  Familiarity information: MAKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

maker; shaper

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

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

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

patternmaker (someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking))

maltman; maltster (a maker of malt)

perfumer (a person who makes (and sells) perfumes)

piano maker (a person who makes pianos)

saddler (a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses)

sailmaker (a maker of sails)

shirtmaker (a maker of shirts)

spinner; spinster; thread maker (someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads))

steelmaker; steelman; steelworker (a worker engaged in making steel)

tentmaker (someone who makes or repairs tents)

toolmaker (someone skilled in making or repairing tools)

vintner; wine maker; winemaker (someone who makes wine)

violin maker (someone who makes violins)

horologer; horologist; watchmaker (someone who makes or repairs watches)

wigmaker (someone who makes and sells wigs)

needleworker (someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle)

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

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

ironworker (a person who makes articles of iron)

hatmaker; hatter; milliner; modiste (someone who makes and sells hats)

glassmaker (someone who makes glass)

author; generator; source (someone who originates or causes or initiates something)

candymaker; confectioner (someone who makes candies and other sweets)

cobbler; shoemaker (a person who makes or repairs shoes)

chandler (a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints)

beer maker; brewer (someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water)

bookmaker (a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books)

belt maker (a maker of belts)

basketmaker; basketweaver (someone skilled in weaving baskets)

Instance hyponyms:

Adolphe Sax; Sax (a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894))

Derivation:

make (create or manufacture a man-made product)

make (make by combining materials and parts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker

Instance hypernyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

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

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A business engaged in manufacturing some product

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

maker; manufacturer; manufacturing business

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

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

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

bottler (a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages)

auto maker; auto manufacturer; automaker; car maker; car manufacturer; carmaker (a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles)

computer business (a business that manufactures and sells computers)

armorer; armourer (a manufacturer of firearms)

Derivation:

make (create or manufacture a man-made product)

 Context examples 

I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“To a mast-maker up town,” said Mr. Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was no maker’s name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials “H. B.” were scrawled upon one side.

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

You are aware that Johann Faber is the most common maker’s name.

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

I know likewise, that writers of travels, like dictionary-makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who come last, and therefore lie uppermost.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My life will flow quietly away, and in my dying moments I shall not curse my maker.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I am no match-maker, as you well know, said Lady Russell, being much too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Certainly, among my many new trades, I shone least as a sail-maker.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That translates to adding about 0.7 ounces for a 1-quart home ice cream maker.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)