craft
/ˈkɹäːft/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
Countable; Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "By the craft of nature."
- "The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […]"
- "England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens."
- "[…]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death."
- "[…] you have that Crooked Wisdome, which is called Craft […]"
- "We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft Inherited 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 Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: craft, cræft, *kraftu, *kraftuz, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɹäːft/
- British English: /ˈkɹɑːft/