| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ma·son |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m  s n |
| NOUN: | 1. One who builds or works with stone or brick. 2. Mason A Freemason. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ma·soned, ma·son·ing, ma·sons
To build of or strengthen with masonry. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French maçon, masson, of Germanic origin. See mag- in Appendix I.
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