artist

[ ahr-tist ]

/ ˈɑr tɪst /

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noun

a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.

a person who practices one of the fine arts, especially a painter or sculptor.

a person whose trade or profession requires a knowledge of design, drawing, painting, etc.: a commercial artist.

a person who works in one of the performing arts, as an actor, musician, or singer; a public performer: a mime artist; an artist of the dance.

a person whose work exhibits exceptional skill.

a person who is expert at trickery or deceit: He's an artist with cards.

Obsolete. an artisan.

Origin of artist

1575–85; < Middle French artiste < Medieval Latin artista master of arts. See art¹, -ist

synonym study for artist

1. Artist, artisan, artiste are persons having superior skill or ability, or who are capable of producing superior work. An artist is a person engaged in some type of fine art. An artisan is engaged in a craft or applied art. An artiste is usually a skilled public performer.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH artist

artisan artist artiste (see synonym study at the current entry)

Words nearby artist

artilleryman, artio-, artiodactyl, artisan, artisanal, artist, artiste, artistic, artistic director, artistry, artless

Example sentences from the Web for artist

No artist had ever done anything like that at an awards show.

Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect Year |Kevin Fallon |December 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
To be fair, no artist had ever been asked to, or could have pulled it off if they had.

Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect Year |Kevin Fallon |December 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A 59-year-old retired subway train driver, who gave his name only as Artist, admitted that he had family members in the NYPD.

Protesters Demand Justice For Gurley As Gap Grows Between Cops and NYC |M.L. Nestel |December 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
On the other end of the spectrum, there lies an artist like Lena Dunham, who engages in a flaunting of the flawed self.

Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination |Mindy Farabee |December 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

He is my favorite Woodstock artist, the highlight of the entire festival.

The Greatest Rock Voice of All Time Belonged to Joe Cocker |Ted Gioia |December 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the æsthetic critic can understand it.

Intentions |Oscar Wilde
Well; but I wished to hear your opinion as an artist—you must be better enabled to judge than I can.

Miles Tremenhere, Vol 2 of 2 |Annette Marie Maillard
Pictures come into a different category, for every artist painted more than one picture.

Roving East and Roving West |E. V. Lucas
Two other foreigners, an English artist and a merchant from Amsterdam, 326joined our party.

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II |Karl Ritter von Scherzer
The rest of the party had gone to the cliffs with the artist, the girls on a pretense of learning to sketch from nature.

Their Pilgrimage |Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for artist

artist

/ (ˈɑːtɪst) /

noun

a person who practises or is skilled in an art, esp painting, drawing, or sculpture

a person who displays in his work qualities required in art, such as sensibility and imagination

a person whose profession requires artistic expertise, esp a designer a commercial artist

a person skilled in some task or occupation an artist at bricklaying

obsolete an artisan

slang a person devoted to or proficient in something a booze artist; a con artist

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