smith
IPA: smˈɪθ
noun
- A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.
- (by extension) One who makes anything; wright.
- (archaic) An artist.
- An English surname originating as an occupation (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Several places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina
- A small unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, named for an early settler family.
- A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Smith Township.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- Several rivers:
- A river in Douglas County, Oregon, United States, a tributary of the Umpqua River.
- A river in Montana, United States, a tributary of the Missouri.
- A river in Yukon and British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Liard River.
- A river in Virginia and North Carolina, United States, a tributary of the Dan River.
- A river in California, United States, flowing from the Klamath Mountains into the Pacific.
- A river in New Hampshire, United States, a tributary of the Pemigewasset River.
- A river in Linn County, Oregon, United States, a tributary of the McKenzie River.
- A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Montmorency River.
- Smith College (a women's college in Massachusetts, U.S.)
verb
- To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.
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Examples of "smith" in Sentences
- Smith was a portly man.
- His dream is to be a smith.
- His father is a famous smith.
- Physically, Smith seemed unprepossessing.
- Smith remains the chairman of the company.
- In the case of Smith, it is arrogance and vanity.
- The chorus is reminiscent of Panic by The Smiths.
- The song was originally popularized by The Smiths.
- Smith was the representative of the judiciary to the council.
- Like the murder of a sword smith by his own (fashioned) sword.
- The smith is a brawny native Maltese, with a form a Hercules might envy.
- The group publicly called Smith a polygamist but Smith publicly denied it.
- The worker in metals is usually called a smith, whether he be coppersmith or goldsmith.
- _study_ of his; for in Scotland they call a smith's anvil a study, so that he ranks with other artists in that respect.
- In the old days, I'd have been called a smith, but things like nails, bolts, all that, they come out of Faitel and arrive here in boxes and crates.
- It was well that others besides himself should speak for the people of the parish, and Bened the smith was a highly respected man, like all of his craft, and his words would carry weight.
- Not even a part of the smallest steel filing from a master sword smith's forge - ah, no! Money was merely the sere gateway to power, and power, well, all that was good for was manoeuvrability.
- If today a master sword smith were smelting metal and the metal should jump up and say "I insist on being made into an Excalibur," the sword smith would surely think it metal with a curse on it.
- Mason quashed the proposal, remarking truly enough that there was too much bad blood as it was between father and son; while Tammas proposed with a sneer that the smith should be his own agent in the matter.
- The residence of a smith was his first object of inquiry, in which he received little satisfaction from the dullness or sullenness of one or two peasants, early bound for their labour, who gave brief and indifferent answers to his questions on the subject.