Handiwork

Definition: Handiwork

Handiwork

Noun

1. A work produced by hand labor.

Date "handiwork" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Handiwork \Hand"i*work`\, noun. [from Old English expression handiwerc, Anglo-Saxon handgeweorc; hand hand geweorc work; prefix ge- weorc. See Work.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Handiwork

Synonyms: handcraft (n), handicraft (n), handwork (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Action	Deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).
Effect	Production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits, firstlings; heredity, telegony; premices premises.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Handiwork

English words defined with "handiwork": Hand work, Hand-work. (references)

Specialty definitions using "handiwork": Inventors Punished. (references)

Etymologies containing "handiwork": handicraft. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Nature's Handiwork (1921)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork (reference) Handiwork (reference) Holiday Handiwork (Handy Crafts) (reference) If I'm God's Handiwork, Would Someone Please Explain These Thighs! Discovering Your Unique Destiny (reference) Origins and Destiny: A Scientist Examines God's Handiwork (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Handiwork [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	By degrees, nor very slowly, her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Other students stood or sat near him laughing at his handiwork.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Handiwork" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Handiwork" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	89	34,931

Expression using "handiwork": a nice piece of handiwork. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "handiwork"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		punë e bërë vetë, punë dore (handicraft), prodhim vetiak. (various references)

Arabic		‏عمل يدوي (manually), ‏صنع يدوي. (various references)

Bulgarian		ръчна работа (handicraft, handwork), изделие (job, making, manufacture, product), дело (act, action, affair, case, cause, deed, file, life work, plea, suit). (various references)

Chinese		手工 (handwork, manual, manually), 工藝�"� (handicraft article). (various references)

Czech		ruèní práce (fancywork, handicraft, handwork, needlework). (various references)

Dutch		handwerk (handicraft, handwork, occupation, trade). (various references)

Esperanto		manfaritaĵo. (various references)

French		travail manuel, ouvrage. (various references)

German		Handarbeit (crocheting, handicraft, handwork, knitting, manual work, manual-labour, needlework, work done by hand). (various references)

Greek		χειροτέχνημα, εργόχειρο (embroidery, needlecraft, sampler). (various references)

Hebrew		מלאכת י�" (handicraft). (various references)

Hungarian		kézzel végzett munka. (various references)

Indonesian		tempa (metal handiwork). (various references)

Italian		operato (actions, diapered, embossed, figured, tooled), opera (action, agency, construction, deed, foundation, institution, opera, opus, organization, work), lavoro manuale, lavoro fatto a mano. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		手細工 (handicraft, homemade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		てざいく (handicraft, homemade). (various references)

Korean		세공�'�. (various references)

Manx		obbyr (billet, duty, elbow-grease, employment, job, labour, operation, ploy, work, working). (various references)

Pig Latin		andiworkhay.(various references)

Portuguese		operário (artisan, blue collar worker, hand, laborer, labourer, operative, operator, worker, workman), ofício manual (handicraft). (various references)

Romanian		muncã manualã (handicraft, manual labor, manual labour, needlework). (various references)

Russian		ручная работа (hand job, handicraft, handwork). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ručni rad (distaff, fancywork, handicraft, handwork). (various references)

Spanish		trabajo manual (handwork), artesanía (craftsmanship, handicraft, mastership). (various references)

Swedish		hantverk (craft, crafts, craftsmanship, handcraft, handicraft, trade), handarbete (embroidery, free blowing, handicraft, handwork, knitting, needlecraft, needlework, offhand process, off-hand working, work), slöjd (craft, handicraft, handi-work). (various references)

Turkish		yapıt (composition, production, work), işleme (crop, cultivation, engraving, fancywork, movement, perpetration, processing, service, travel, work, working), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), eser (achievement, baby, consequence, creation, effort, ghost, piece, production, vestige, work), elişi (handicraft, handwork). (various references)

Ukranian		ручна робота (handicraft), рукоділля (needlework, work). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc l� m bằng tay đ�" thủ công việc l� m. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "handiwork": handiworks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Handiwork" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andiwork, antiwork. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "handiwork" (pronounced ha"ndēwer'k)
3	-w er' k	artwork, beadwork, brushwork, casework, clockwork, earthwork, fieldwork, firework, footwork, framework, groundwork, guesswork, homework, housework, latticework, leadwork, legwork, masterwork, metalwork, needlework, network, openwork, paperwork, patchwork, piecework, plasterwork, roadwork, schoolwork, spadework, teamwork, woodwork.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-k-n-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: handwork.
	-2 letters: dorhawk.
	-3 letters: daikon, hadron, hairdo, inroad, inward, onward, ordain.
	-4 letters: adorn, adown, aroid, danio, dinar, diwan, drain, drank, drawn, drink, drown, hoard, honda, indow, khadi, korai, krona, nadir, noria, radio, radon, ranid, rawin, rhino, rowan.
	-5 letters: airn, akin, ankh, arid, dank, dark, darn, dawk, dawn, dhak, dhow, dink, dirk, dona, dork, down, draw, haik, hair, hand, hank, hard, hark, hawk, hind, hoar, honk, hora, horn, howk, hwan, ikon, inro, iron, kadi, kain, kaon, karn, khan, kina, kind, kino, kirn, knar, know, koan, naoi, nard, nark, nodi, noir, nori, ohia, oink, okra, orad, raid, rain, raki, rand, rani, rank, rind, rink, road, roan, wadi, wain, wair, wand, ward, wark, warn, whid, whin, whir, whoa, wind, wink, wino, woad, wonk, word, work, worn.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-k-n-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: handiworks.
	+2 letters: hardworking.
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