artist

noun
/ˈɑːtɪst/UK/ˈɑɹ.tɪst/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -ista Late Latin artistader. French artisteder. English artist From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist.

  1. derived from artista
  2. derived from artiste

Definitions

  1. A person who creates art.

  2. A person who is skilled at some activity.

  3. A recording artist.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)

    2. Artistic.

      • 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.
    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at artist

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