mason

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪsən/
• Rhymes: -eɪsən

mason (plural masons)

1. A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.
2. One who prepares stone for building purposes.
3. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

mason (third-person singular simple present masons, present participle masoning, simple past and past participle masoned)

1. (transitive, normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

   to mason up a well or terrace

   to mason in a kettle or boiler

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.

• monas, Osman, moans, maons, NOMAS, Manso, soman, manos

• IPA^(key): /ˈmason/

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• Rhymes: -ason
• Syllabification: ma‧son

mason

1. accusative singular of maso

From French maçon.

mason

1. mason, bricklayer

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mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 220
• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 685

Borrowed from French maçon, from Middle French maçon (“mason”), from Old French maçon, masson, machun (“brick-layer”), from Late Latin maciō, machiō (“carpenter, brick-layer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɔn/

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• Rhymes: -asɔn
• Syllabification: ma‧son

mason m pers (female equivalent masonka)

1. mason, Freemason

   Synonym: wolnomularz

• “mason”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “mason”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French maçon.

mason m (plural masoni)

1. freemason

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mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN

Borrowed from Spanish masón, borrowed from French maçon (“mason”), from Middle French maçon, from Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciōnem, borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō, from Proto-Germanic *matjô, from Proto-Indo-European *met-. The sense “mason” is a semantic loan from English mason. The Spanish term that means “mason” is Spanish mampostero or Spanish mazonero.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈson/ [mɐˈson̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ma‧son

masón (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐᜓᜈ᜔)

1. Freemason

   Synonym: prangkomason

2. mason (one who builds with stone or brick)

   Synonyms: kantero, (obsolete) panday-bato

• “mason”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “mason”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 388