Definition of Housebuilder

1. Noun. Someone who builds houses as a business.

Exact synonyms: Home-builder, Homebuilder, House-builder
Generic synonyms: Builder, Constructor

Definition of Housebuilder

1. n. One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

Definition of Housebuilder

1. Noun. One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Housebuilder

houseboi
housebois
housebote
housebotes
housebound
houseboy
houseboys
housebreaker
housebreakers
housebreaking
housebreakings
housebreaks
housebroke
housebuilder (current term)
housebuilders
housebuilding
housebuyer
housebuyers
housebuying
housecall
housecalls
housecar
housecare
housecarl
housecarls
housecars
housecat
housecats

Literary usage of Housebuilder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aristotle's Politics: Books I. III. IV. (VII.) by Aristotle, Immanuel Bekker, William Ernest Bolland, Andrew Lang (1877)
"For in the relation of a house to the housebuilder there is no common element, and yet it ia for the sake of making a house that the art of the housebuilder ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"WALLACE, WILLIAM (1844-1897), professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, corn at Cupar-Fife on 11 May 1844, was son of James Cooper Wallace, housebuilder, ..."

3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"His father, Walter Whitman, was a farmer and later a somewhat nomadic carpenter and moderately successful housebuilder, who, although, like the poet's ..."

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