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Webster 1913 Edition

Wright

Wright

,
Noun.
[OE.
wrighte
,
writhe
, AS.
wyrtha
, fr.
wyrcean
to work. √145. See
Work
.]
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; – now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
He was a well good
wright
, a carpenter.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wright

WRIGHT

,
Noun.
An artificer; one whose occupation is some kind of mechanical business; a workman; a manufacturer. This word is now chiefly used in compounds, as in shipwright, wheelwright.

Definition 2024

Wright

Wright

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English

Proper noun

Wright ‎(plural Wrights)

  1. A British occupational surname​ from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.
  2. An American surname; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit.

wright

wright

See also: Wright

English

Noun

wright ‎(plural wrights)

  1. (obsolete) A builder or creator of something.
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Etymology 2

Verb

wright ‎(third-person singular simple present wrights, present participle wrighting, simple past and past participle wrighted)

  1. (dated) Misspelling of write.

Etymology

From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta ‎(“worker; wright; workman; artificer; laborer; craftsman”), from West Germanic *wurhtijô (as in Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ‎(“to work”) (English work). Cognate with English wrought, dated Dutch wrecht.

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