A smith is someone whose job involves making things out of metal. Visit a historically accurate colonial village and you might see a smith making tools or nails by hand. Smith or smithy is shorthand for blacksmith, an artisan who hammers tools and other items out of hot iron or steel.

A smith can be any maker but particularly refers to one who works in metals. A blacksmith is usually one who forges iron, while a whitesmith or tinsmith works with tin or other lighter materials. The word smith derives from Old English and is probably a cousin to the Greek word for a wood-carving knife.

smith. noun. ˈsmith. 1. : a worker in metals : blacksmith.

Smith Sentence Examples. The smith went on with his work. We get lots of his relatives too—the whole Smith family. With the help of William Smith (1728-1793), the New York historian, William Livingston prepared a digest of the laws of New York for the period 1691-1756, which was published in two volumes (1752 and 1762) ...