English
Etymology
From watch + maker. Compare clockmaker.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɔtʃˌmeɪkə/
Noun
watchmaker (plural watchmakers)
- A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watchs.
- Hypernyms: horologist, horologer
- Coordinate terms: clockmaker, clocksmith
The watchmakers of Switzerland were pioneers of screw machine technology.
- (philosophy, religion, often capitalized) God in His role as the creator according to the watchmaker analogy.
- Near-synonym: clockmaker
We have the great watchmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.
Translations
person who makes and/or maintains watches
- Albanian: sahatçi (sq) m, orëndreqës (sq) m
- Arabic: سَاعَاتِيّ m (sāʕātiyy)
- Armenian: ժամագործ (hy) (žamagorc)
- Belarusian: гадзі́ншчык m (hadzínščyk), гадзі́ншчыца f (hadzínščyca)
- Bulgarian: часовника́р (bg) m (časovnikár), часовника́рка f (časovnikárka)
- Catalan: rellotger (ca) m, rellotgera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐘錶匠 / 钟表匠 (zh) (zhōngbiǎojiàng)
- Czech: hodinář (cs) m, hodinářka f
- Danish: urmager (da) c
- Dutch: horlogemaker (nl) m, klokkenmaker (nl) m, uurwerkmaker (nl) m
- Faroese: ursmiður m
- Finnish: kelloseppä (fi)
- French: horloger (fr), horlogère (fr) f
- Galician: reloxeiro (gl) m, reloxeira f
- German: Uhrmacher (de) m, Uhrmacherin (de) f
- Hebrew: שָׁעָן / שֶׁעָן (he) m (sha'án), שענית f (sha'anít)
- Icelandic: úrsmiður (is) m
- Italian: orologiaio (it) m, orologiaia f
- Japanese: 時計師 (ja) (とけいし, tokeishi), 時計屋 (ja) (とけいや, tokeiya)
- Kazakh: сағатшы (sağatşy)
- Korean: 시계 기술자(時計技術者) (sigye gisulja), 시계 제작자(時計製作者) (sigye jejakja)
- Macedonian: часовничар m (časovničar), часовничарка f (časovničarka), часовникар m (časovnikar), часовникарка f (časovnikarka)
- Malay: tukang arloji
- Maltese: arluġġar m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: urmaker (no) m
- Nynorsk: urmakar m
- Occitan: relòtgièr m, relotgièra (oc) f
- Pannonian Rusyn: годзинкар m (hodzinkar)
- Polish: zegarmistrz (pl) m, zegarmistrzyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: relojoeiro (pt) m, relojoeira f
- Romanian: ceasornicar (ro) m, orologier (ro) m (rare)
- Russian: часовщи́к (ru) m (časovščík), часовщи́ца f (časovščíca), часово́й ма́стер m (časovój máster)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: часовничар m, у̀ра̄р m
- Roman: časovničar (sh) m, ùrār (sh) m
- Slovak: hodinár (sk) m, hodinárka f
- Slovene: urar m, urarka f
- Spanish: relojero (es) m, relojera f
- Swedish: urmakare (sv) c
- Tagalog: relohero
- Ukrainian: годинника́р m (hodynnykár), годинника́рка f (hodynnykárka)
- Uzbek: soatsoz (uz)
- Volapük: glokel (vo)
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