SHOEMAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoemaker mean? 

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

1. a person who makes or repairs shoes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOEMAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes or repairs shoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cobbler; shoemaker

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

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

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

boot maker; bootmaker (a maker of boots)

 Context examples 

“There, bird,” said the shoemaker, “now sing me that song again.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Bird,” said the shoemaker, “sing me that song again.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The next day the wife said to the shoemaker.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then he flew away, and settled on the roof of a shoemaker’s house and sang.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The shoemaker heard him, and he jumped up and ran out in his shirt-sleeves, and stood looking up at the bird on the roof with his hand over his eyes to keep himself from being blinded by the sun.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker’s bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)