journeyman
pronunciation
How to pronounce journeyman in British English:
UK [ˈdʒɜ:nimən]
How to pronounce journeyman in American English:
US [ˈdʒɜrnimən]
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- Noun:
- a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
Word Origin
- journeyman (n.)
- "qualified worker at a craft or trade who works for wages for another" (a position between apprentice and master), early 15c., from journey (n.), preserving the etymological sense of the word, + man (n.). Figurative depricatory sense of "hireling, drudge" is from 1540s. Its American English colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.
Example
- 1. You will need to become a journeyman miner to begin .
- 2. Become a journeyman in first aid .
- 3. For now , it is an online college with regular physical wizard camps , where muggles can study seven years to graduate with a journeyman degree in wizardry .
- 4. He 's a workaday , journeyman , decent-ish signing and that 's it .
- 5. The quality of building was quite superior because every worker on the construction crew was an experienced journeyman .