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Carpenter is a surname. Its use as a forename or middle name is rare. Within the United States, it ranked as the 231st-most common surname as of the 2010 census. [1] The English meaning of carpenter is the occupation of one who makes wooden objects and structures by shaping wood.
Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German Zimmermann, meaning "carpenter" (literally "room man"). The modern German terms for carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. It is also commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews.
Carpenter and joiner has broad skill sets ranging from joinery, finish carpentry, framing, and formwork. Conservation carpenter works in architectural conservation, known in the U.S. as a "preservation" or "restoration"; a carpenter who works in historic preservation, maintaining structures as they were built or restoring them to that condition.
Charpentier (pronounced [ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje]) is the French word for "carpenter", and it is also a French surname; a variant spelling is Carpentier.In English, the equivalent word and name is "Carpenter"; in German, "Zimmermann"; in Dutch, "Timmerman".
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See Carpenter (surname) for the etymology and related names. See Carpenter (disambiguation) for Carpenter named communities, natural features, and manmade features. See Carpenter House (disambiguation) for houses, homes, shops, homesteads, farmsteads, or other partially named or hyphenated named places with "Carpenter" or a similar meaning name.
Zimmer is German surname meaning "room" or "chamber". Derivative names include Zimmermann , the occupational surname meaning Carpenter, literally translated "room man" (i.e. someone who builds wooden structures to be lived in).