Meaning

16 senses
  1. Intellectual power; skill; art.

    (countable, uncountable)Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

    Schlauheit, Durchtriebenheit, Gerissenheit

    хи́тростьxítrostʹ

    хи́трістьxýtristʹ, лука́вствоlukávstvo

  2. (countable, uncountable)Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .

    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

  3. (uncountable)Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

    The craft of writing plays.

  4. (countable, plural)A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .

    The carpenter's craft.

    He learned his craft as an apprentice.

    Handwerk

    ремесло́remesló

    ремесло́remesló

    the skilled practice of a practical occupation

  5. (countable)A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .

    She represented the craft of brewers.

    Gilde, Innung, Zunft

    спі́лкаspílka

  6. (countable)A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

    a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

  7. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

    (countable, uncountable)Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.

  8. (British Royal Navy, countable, uncountable)Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.

  9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A woman.

  10. (countable)Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

  11. (obsolete, uncountable)Strength; power; might; force .

  12. Intellectual power; skill; art.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Occult art, magic .

Examples

64 sentences
  1. She learned the craft of basket weaving from her grandmother.

    ruОна научилась искусству плетения корзин у своей бабушки.

    deSie erlernte die Kunst des Korbwebens von ihrer Großmutter.

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  2. Do you think dogs would make good writers or would cats be better at the craft?

    Гадаєш, собаки були би добрими письменниками, або може, коти, були би кращими в цьому ремеслі?

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  3. Never forget to craft a bed on your first day.

    ruНикогда не забывай скрафтить кровать в свой первый день.

    deVergiss nie, dir am ersten Tag ein Bett zu bauen!

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  4. I greatly recommend reading it to anybody thinking of learning a craft.

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  5. Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
skill in one's work:
cunning, shrewdness:
skilled practice of practical occupation:
members of a trade collectively:
Русский
By meaning 3
skill in one's work:
cunning, shrewdness:
skilled practice of practical occupation:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
skill in one's work:
vehicle designed for navigation:
cunning, shrewdness:
members of a trade collectively:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength

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.

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