artisan
nounEtymology
From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“to instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
- derived from artītus
- derived from *artītiānus✻
- borrowed from artisan
Definitions
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.
A person who displays great dexterity.
Artisanal.
- Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
The neighborhood
- neighborart
- neighborartist
- neighborartistic
- neighborcraftsman
- neighborcraftsperson
- neighborcraftswoman
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.
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA