artisan

noun
/ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/UK/ˈɑɹtɪzən/US

Etymology

From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“to instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

  1. derived from artītus
  2. derived from *artītiānus
  3. borrowed from artisan

Definitions

  1. A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.

    • One or two works, particularly those of Babcock & Wilcox, are on the Renfrew line, and the passenger services are run to suit the artisan rather than the businessman travelling daily to the city.
  2. A person who displays great dexterity.

  3. Artisanal.

    • Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at artisan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at artisan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at artisan

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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