architect
A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
Example
“Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect.”
Other meanings
A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
“Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.”
An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
Synonyms
- designer
Related words
- coarchitect
- nonarchitect
- subarchitect
- business architect
- ecoarchitect
- landscape architect
- microarchitect
- naval architect
- software architect
- starchitect
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἀρχιτέκτων" (master builder).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “architect” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.