Artist

//ˈɑːtɪst// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who creates art.
  2. 2
    a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who creates art.; A person who creates art as an occupation.
  4. 4
    A person who is skilled at some activity. in-compounds, often
  5. 5
    A recording artist.
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  1. 6
    A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)
Adjective
  1. 1
    Artistic. archaic

    "Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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aceadeptadmirable crichtonancestorsapprenticearchitect

Example

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"I am not an artist. I never had the knack for it."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist.

Etymology 2

Variant of Artis.

Related phrases

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