Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

artist

Syllabification: (art·ist)
Pronunciation: /ˈärtist/

Translate artist | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of artist

noun

  • a person who produces paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.
  • a person who practices any of the various creative arts, such as a sculptor, novelist, poet, or filmmaker.
  • a person skilled at a particular task or occupation:a surgeon who is an artist with the scalpel
  • a performer, such as a singer, actor, or dancer.
  • [with modifier] informal a habitual practitioner of a specified reprehensible activity:a con artist rip-off artists

Origin:

early 16th century (denoting a master of the liberal arts): from French artiste, from Italian artista, from arte art, from Latin ars, art-

artist in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of artist in the British & World English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

More words in this category

Word of the day

merrythought

/ ˈmerēˌTHôt /
noun
the wishbone of a bird …