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Webster 1913 Edition

Artist

Art′ist

,
Noun.
[F.
artiste
, LL.
artista
, fr. L.
ars
. See
Art
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Artiste
.]
1.
One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
[Obs.]
How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
Instruct the
articles
and reward their.
Waller.
2.
One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
☞ The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects.
Elmes.
3.
One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
Pope.
4.
An artful person; a schemer.
[Obs.]
Syn. – Artisan. See
Artisan
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Artist

'ARTIST

,
Noun.
[L. ars. See Art.]
1.
One skilled in an art or trade; one who is master or professor of a manual art; a good workman in any trade.
2.
A skilful man; not a novice.
3.
In an academical sense, a proficient in the faculty of arts; a philosopher.
4.
One skilled in the fine arts; as a painter, sculptor, architect, &c.

Definition 2024

Artist

Artist

See also: artist

German

Noun

Artist m ‎(genitive Artisten, plural Artisten, feminine Artistin)

  1. one who performs extraordinary physical tricks, such as on a trapeze

Declension

See also

  • Künstler ‎(“artist, someone who performs/creates art”)

artist

artist

English

Artist João Carqueijeiro in a workshop.

Noun

artist ‎(plural artists or artistæ)

  1. A person who creates art.
  2. A person who creates art as an occupation.
  3. A person who is skilled at some activity.
  4. A recording artist.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Adjective

artist ‎(comparative more artist, superlative most artist)

  1. (archaic) Artistic.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol.1, ch.24:
      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.

Anagrams

Albanian

Noun

artist m

  1. artist (all senses)

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin artista ‎(“artist”), from ars ‎(“art”).

Noun

artist m ‎(plural artiscj)

  1. artist

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French artiste

Noun

artist m ‎(definite singular artisten, indefinite plural artister, definite plural artistene)

  1. an artist (performer)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French artiste

Noun

artist m ‎(definite singular artisten, indefinite plural artistar, definite plural artistane)

  1. an artist (performer)

References

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French artiste, from Latin artista.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎrtist/
  • Hyphenation: ar‧tist

Noun

àrtist m ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀ртист)

  1. artist

Declension

References

  • “artist” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

artist c

  1. singer
  2. performer

Declension

Inflection of artist 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative artist artisten artister artisterna
Genitive artists artistens artisters artisternas

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁˈtɪst/

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