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# goldsmith

«goldsmith» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who makes jewellery, cups, plates or other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a goldsmith, goldsmiths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who makes jewellery, cups, plates or other objects out of gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#m1)

2) In history, goldsmiths also kept people's gold safe and lent money, which helped start the first banks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and art lessons goldsmiths made crowns, coins and church treasures (like the Anglo-Saxon gold of Sutton Hoo). In money lessons goldsmiths' receipts were an early form of paper money in London.

### examples

- The goldsmith made a ring for the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x1)
- A goldsmith melts gold and hammers it into shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x2)
- In medieval London goldsmiths had shops on Cheapside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x3)
- The museum showed cups made by a famous goldsmith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x4)
- Goldsmiths in the 1600s kept merchants' gold in strong rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x5)
- My cousin is training to be a goldsmith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x6)
- The goldsmith fled for his life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x7)

### note

Countable. «Smith» means a maker who works metal: blacksmith (iron), silversmith (silver), goldsmith (gold).

### In the corpora

- [The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.856/)
- [Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.45/)
- [And between the upper chamber of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.76/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «goldsmith» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.