builder

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
build/bɪld/

▶verb (past and past part. built)

• 1 construct by putting parts or materials together.

  ■ (build something in/into) incorporate something as a permanent part of.

• 2 increase in size or intensity over time.

  ■ (build on) use as a basis for further development.

▶noun

• 1 the proportions of a person's or animal's body.

• 2 the style or form of construction of something.

– derivatives
builder noun.

– origin OE byldan, from bold, botl ‘dwelling’, of Gmc origin; rel. to bower1.