Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who sets tiles.

    Fliesenleger, Fliesenlegerin, Fliesenverleger

    пли́точникplítočnik

  2. A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

More definitions
  • a worker who lays tile

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The smoothing trowel is a tool for plasterers, tilers and masons.

    deDie Glättkelle ist ein Werkzeug für Stuckateure, Fliesenleger und Maurer. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. Tom works as a tiler for a building firm.

    deTom arbeitet als Fliesenleger für ein Bauunternehmen. — Melang

  3. Ziri is a tiler.

  4. Ziri became a tiler.

Translations

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere,

Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.

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Forms

plural: tilers
Singulartiler
Pluraltilers

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtile

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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