Goldsmith
Hereditary family designation
Goldsmith is a surname of occupational origin, indicating an ancestor who worked with gold.
The Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith wrote *The Vicar of Wakefield* and *She Stoops to Conquer* in the eighteenth century. (Lowercase goldsmith is someone who works with gold.)
surname
Male given name
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- authorCreator of written works
- poetWriter of verse
- IrishOf the Emerald Isle
Oliver
Male given name
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- authorCreator of written works
- poetWriter of verse
- PlaywrightsWilliam Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Chekhov, Ibsen
- 18th Century WritersVoltaire, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Sheridan
- West TexasLubbock, Odessa, Amarillo, Abilene, Plainview
- Early English VerseChaucer, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne
- Modern ClassicalStravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokofiev
material worked
Goldsmithblacksmith
Iron-shaping craftsperson
tinsmith · ironworker · steelworker · tinker · junk dealer
creation vs destruction of precious objects
Goldsmithsmelter
Ore-refining plant
scrapper · pawnbroker · fence