watchmaker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsperson or company that makes, maintains, or repairs watches

   The watchmaker cleaned the movement and replaced its broken mainspring.

2. 2
   noun

   a creator, especially God, imagined as designing the universe as precisely as a watchmaker designs a watch

   The philosopher compared the creator to a watchmaker whose design could be inferred from the universe.

A compound of watch + maker. The craft sense names the person who makes or repairs a watch; maker is the agent noun of make. The theological sense comes from the watchmaker analogy, which compares the ordered universe to a watch and attributes its design to an intelligent creator.

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