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Definition of Housebuilder
1. Noun. Someone who builds houses as a business.
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
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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