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architect

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
architect/ˈɑːkɪtekt/

▶noun

1 a person who designs buildings and supervises their construction.

2 a person responsible for the invention or realization of something.

▶verb Computing design and make (a program or system).

– origin C16: from Fr. architecte, from Ital. architetto, via L. from Gk arkhitektōn ‘chief builder’.

'architect' also found in these Oxford entries:

architectonic - article - buckminsterfullerene - Churrigueresque - hansom - landscape architecture - mansard - Miesian - naval architecture - Palladian - par excellence - serial comma - specify - Usonian

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