Mason Definition

māsən
masons
noun
masons
A person whose work is building with stone, brick, concrete, etc.
Webster's New World
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A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

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verb
To build of or reinforce with masonry.
Webster's New World
To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.
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pronoun
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A city in Michigan.

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A town in New Hampshire.
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A city in Ohio.

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Other Word Forms of Mason

Noun

Singular:
mason
Plural:
masons

Origin of Mason

  • From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Old Low Frankish *mattio, from Proto-Germanic *maitô (compare German obsolete Metz, Steinmetz), from *maitanÄ… (“to cut, hew") (compare Old High German meizan, East Frisian matje, Old Norse meita), from Proto-Indo-European *mai-d- (“to alter") (compare Old Lithuanian apmaitinti (“to wound"), Latvian màitât (“to spoil, destroy")), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“to change, exchange"). More at mean, mutate.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French maçon, masson of Germanic origin mag- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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