craft

Verb

1. To make by hand and with much skill.
2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
3. To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Strength; power; might; force .
2. (countable, uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.
3. (countable, uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.
5. (countable, obsolete) A work or product of art .
6. (collective, countable, obsolete, plural, uncountable) A work or product of art .
7. (countable, obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
8. (countable, obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
9. (uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
10. (countable, plural) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
11. (countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
12. (countable, uncountable) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
13. (British-Royal-Navy, countable, uncountable) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
14. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
15. (countable) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹɑːft/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: craft

Inherited from Old English: cræft

Cognate with German: Kraft

In summary

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

Synonyms

trade

cunning

art

🎨

skill

handicraft

ship

🚢

guile

vessel

trick

slyness

boat

⛵

workmanship

artifice

deceit

craftiness

craftsmanship

profession

technique

artfulness

stratagem

ability

knack

wiliness

wile

wiles

dexterity

technology

accomplishment

artistic work

aptitude

astuteness

trickery

slickness

arts

skillfulness

resourcefulness

adeptness

proficiency

performance

masterliness

construct

foxiness

plot

make

manufacture

pretence

handiwork

deception

cunningness

barque