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Added 9 October 2026

craft

/ˈkɹɑːft/ noun

In Latin: ars Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about craft at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Strength; power; might; force .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}.
Intellectual power; skill; art.
Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

verb

To make by hand and with much skill.
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
state crafting; the process of crafting global policing
To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Origin

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. Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).

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