Word Meanings - JOURNEYMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.

Related words: (words related to JOURNEYMAN)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• HIRUDINE
  Of or pertaining to the leeches.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• APPRENTICEHOOD
  Apprenticeship.
• HIRELING
  One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.
• HIRE
  A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. Story. Syn. -- Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay. (more info) 1. The price; reward, or compensation paid,
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• HIRUDINEA
  An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• CHIRRUP
  To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
• CHURME; CHIRM
  Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.
• CHIROGYMNAST
  A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• CHIRETTA
  A plant found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
• CHIROGRAPHIST
  1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.