builder

From Middle English bilder; equivalent to build +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.dɚ/, [ˈbɪɫ.ɾɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɪldə(r)

builder (plural builders)

1. A person who builds or constructs things.
2. (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
3. (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
   • 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder:

     In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.

• (a person who builds or constructs things): constructor

• (a person who builds or constructs things): destroyer, wrecker

• building worker
• construction worker

• rebuild