Word definition: artist

Etimology


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

noun


artist (plural artists)

A person who creates art.

(often in combination) A person who is skilled at some activity.

A recording artist.

Related words


hyponyms

animator

drawer

painter

sculptor

related terms

art

artisan

artiste

artistic

adjective


artist (comparative more artist, superlative most artist)

(archaic) Artistic.

Examples


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.

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