Mason Definition

māsən

masons

noun

masons

A person whose work is building with stone, brick, concrete, etc.

Webster's New World

Freemason.

Webster's New World

A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

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Synonyms:

Synonyms:
george mason
James Neville Mason
James Mason
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
A. E. W. Mason
stonemason
freemason
tiler
brickmason
bricklayer
shriner
a member of the Masonic order

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

An occupational surname for a stonemason.

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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.

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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