electrician
Pluralelectricians
- 1Someone in the electrical trade whose job is to fit, fix, and service wiring and electrical equipment.
The electrician rewired the entire office over a single weekend.
Licensed electricians must follow strict safety codes when working on high-voltage systems.
- 2A scientist who studies electricity and its effects.
The celebrated electrician demonstrated his charged jar to a crowd of curious onlookers.
Several electricians of the eighteenth century debated the true nature of static charge.
Note
An older use, formed the same way as the trade word (electric plus -ian, one who works with electricity), but pointed at the science rather than the wiring. As an archaic sense it suits historical writing or period pastiche. In present-day prose a reader will take electrician to mean the wiring tradesperson, so a modern scientist of electricity is better called a physicist.
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Origin
Formed from "electric" combined with the suffix "-ian".