Meaning

5 senses
  1. (dated)One who works in or with lead.

    Bleiarbeiter, Bleiarbeiterin

  2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

    Mario and Luigi's profession is plumbers.

    Klempner, Klempnerin, Installateur

    водопрово́дчикvodoprovódčik, санте́хникsantéxnik

    водопрові́дникvodoprovídnyk, санте́хнікsantéxnik

    a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

  3. (slang)A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.

  4. (UK, informal)In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.

  5. (derogatory, slang)A urologist.

Examples

140 sentences
  1. How much money do plumbers make?

    Скільки заробляють сантехніки? — deniko

  2. I used to be a plumber.

    Я колись був сантехніком. — deniko

  3. Tom is the only plumber in town.

    Том — єдиний у місті сантехнік. — deniko

  4. I told Tom you were a good plumber.

    Я сказав Тому, що ти добрий сантехнік. — deniko

  5. Tom isn't a plumber.

    Том не сантехнік. — deniko

    deTom ist kein Klempner. — wolfgangth

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who works in lead:
one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage:

Origin

From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbā

From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).

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Forms

plural: plumbers
Singularplumber
Pluralplumbers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances:pipe fitter

Word family

9 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • be a plumber
  • call a plumber
  • as a plumber
  • a plumber for
  • good plumber

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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