artist
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A person who creates art.
A person who is skilled at some activity.
A recording artist.
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A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)
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.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborart
- neighborartisan
- neighborartiste
- neighborartistic
- neighboranimator
- neighbordrawer
- neighborpainter
- neighborsculptor
Derived
airtist, antiartist, arch-artist, artistamp, artistdom, artiste, artistess, artistlike, artistly, artistry, artist's conception, artist's conk, artist's fungus, artist's impression, artist's proof, ASMRtist, balloon artist, bread-artist, concept artist, cover artist, cyberartist, dartist, drag artist, ecoartist, fine artist, foley artist, food artist, graffiti artist, graphic artist, land artist, latte artist, make-up artist, microartist, mixed martial artist, nonartist, paleoartist, pavement artist, performance artist, photo artist, pixel artist · +9 more
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.
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