Synonyms of builders

builders

noun

plural of builder

1

as in craftsmen

a person or company that builds or repairs things (such as houses or ships)

They hired a team of builders to carry out the renovation.

Related Words

• craftsmen
• architects
• mechanics
• artists
• workmen
• handymen
• artisans
• craftspeople
• artificers
• tradesmen
• crafters
• manufacturers
• handicraftsmen
• makers
• journeymen
• producers
• craftswomen
• handypeople
• handicrafters
• handworkers
• handcraftsmen
• masters
• shapers
• operatives
• plants
• smiths
• works
• factories
• workshops
• mills
• manufactories
• wrights
• shops

2

as in designers

a person or organization that creates something (such as a business)

He was one of the great empire builders of the 20th century.

Related Words

• designers
• architects
• founders
• engineers
• creators
• fathers
• makers
• authors
• generators
• artists
• pioneers
• inventors
• innovators
• initiators
• originators
• founding fathers
• formulators
• establishers
• developers
• introducers
• contrivers
• sires
• begetters
• spawners
• devisers
• producers
• inaugurators
• instituters
• planners
• schemers
• masterminds
• conceivers
• researchers
• plotters
• hatchers
• arrangers
• researchists
• cofounders
• cocreators

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of builders

Yeah, and to workers, builders, people who don’t destroy things. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Oct. 2026

And with that reputation, Hall-effect sensors became increasingly common among keyboard builders in the 2010s and showed up in prebuilt gaming keyboards in 2021, starting with Wooting’s Two HE. — ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

With buyers, builders, designers and brokers gathering at Port Hercule, the show offers a useful setting for examining how that confidence develops. — Christoph Lymbersky, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

For more than a century, Indiana has answered when the country needed builders. — Jeff Danielson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026

While developers and builders get to cut corners, residents would lose hundreds of dollars in savings from the lack of efficiency measures and onsite renewable energy. — Tom Nyein, Baltimore Sun, 3 Oct. 2026

In September, 66% of builders reported using sales incentives, up from 63% in August and the highest share since December, according to the National Association of Home Builders’ sentiment survey. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Some of the builders were delighted by the strange setup — the sleeping alcoves for him and Lakofski, the balustrade inspired by the chain link of a nearby playground (and, maybe, a little Frank Gehry). — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026

In Levittown, the cost-cutting builders at first hadn’t even bothered with tanks and had installed cesspools instead—three decades later, the suburb’s sewer system was still under construction. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026