What does Painter mean?
Definitions for Painter
ˈpeɪn tərpainter
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Painter.
Princeton's WordNet
painternoun
an artist who paints
painternoun
a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
painternoun
a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther, Felis concolornoun
large American feline resembling a lion
Wiktionary
painternoun
An artist who paints pictures.
painternoun
A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
painternoun
A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to, e.g. a jetty or another boat.
painternoun
A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".
Etymology: influenced by paintre
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Painternoun
One who professes the art of representing objects by colours.
Etymology: peintre, Fr. from paint.
In the placing let some care be taken how the painter did stand in the working. Henry Wotton, Architecture.
Beauty is only that which makes all things as they are in their proper and perfect nature; which the best painters always chuse by contemplating the forms of each. Dryden.
Wikipedia
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature (as in Artivism). A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art. Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to scenes from the life of Buddha (or other images of Eastern religious origin).
ChatGPT
painter
A painter is a professional or amateur individual who applies paint or other similar substances onto surfaces, such as walls, canvas, objects, or structures. A painter could be an artist who creates visually expressive works of art or a tradesperson who decoratively paints and maintains buildings. Their work can vary from fine art to decorative home improvement or even industrial painting.
Webster Dictionary
Painternoun
a rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything
Painternoun
the panther, or puma
Painternoun
one whose occupation is to paint
Painternoun
one who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint
Painternoun
an artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like
Etymology: [See 1st Paint.]
Wikidata
Painter
This topic is for the profession "Painter", which is a specialization of "Artist", also written "Artiste" yes with an "e", in England in order to show that the artist painter is a professional, like Artiste Langdonart, Ronald Belanger and others are in 2012, and like were van Gogh, Monet and Manet were in the past.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Painter
pānt′ėr, n. a rope used to fasten a boat.—Cut the painter, to set adrift; Lazy painter, a small painter for use in fine weather only. [A corr. of M. E. panter, a fowler's noose, through O. Fr. from L. panther, a hunting-net—Gr. panthēros, catching all—pan, neut. of pas, every, thēr, wild beast.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
painter
A rope attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast: it is spliced with a thimble to a ring-bolt inside the stem. "Cut your painter," make off.
Editors Contribution
painter
A person with the specific and accurate ability, experience, skills, training and qualification to paint.
The local painter ran his business very efficiently.
Submitted by MaryC on March 27, 2020
Etymology and Origins
Painter
The rope by which the “Jolly Boat” or any other is attached to a vessel, so called from the Latin panther, through the French pantier, a drag net.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
PAINTER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Painter is ranked #1641 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Painter surname appeared 21,969 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Painter.
94.1% or 20,677 total occurrences were White.
1.7% or 393 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 338 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 228 total occurrences were Black.
0.8% or 185 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.6% or 145 total occurrences were Asian.
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British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Painter' in Nouns Frequency: #1865
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Anagrams for Painter »
pertain
pine tar
repaint
pterian
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Painter in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Painter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Painter in a Sentence
A painter is like us he has tics, and you have all the tics of Caravaggio in this. Not all of them, but many of them - enough to be sure that this is the hand, this is the writing of this great artist.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece.
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
Jimmy had no idea about tools or how to put things together, but he was good at using his hands and is a pretty accomplished artist and painter. He picked things up quickly.
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- skilderAfrikaans
- فنان, رسام, دهانArabic
- rəssamAzerbaijani
- рәссамBashkir
- худо́жникBulgarian
- liverBreton
- pintorCatalan, Valencian
- malířCzech
- peintiwr, lliwyddWelsh
- maler, kunstmalerDanish
- Fahrzeuglackiererin, Hobbymalerin, Maler, Fangleine, Anstreicherin, Kunstmalerin, Fahrzeuglackierer, Hobbymaler, Freizeitmaler, Anstreicher, Kunstmaler, Autolackiererin, Freizeitmalerin, Malerin, AutolackiererGerman
- ζωγράφος, παλαμάρι, βαφέας, μπογιατζήςGreek
- pentristino, pentristo, farbisto, farbistino, virpentristo, virfarbistoEsperanto
- pintor, pintora, barnizadora, barnizadorSpanish
- margolariBasque
- نگارگر, نقاش, رنگکارPersian
- maalari, taidemaalari, kiinnitysköysiFinnish
- peintre décoratrice, artiste peintre, peintre décorateur, peintresse, peintresse décoratrice, peintreFrench
- lì-dhealbhadair, dealbhadair, ball-toisich, ròpa-toisichScottish Gaelic
- pintor, pintoraGalician
- צבעHebrew
- चित्रकारHindi
- festő, szobafestőHungarian
- pictorInterlingua
- pikerino, piktero, domindutistino, indutisto, farbizistino, piktistino, domindutistulo, indutistino, farbizistulo, piktistulo, domindutisto, pikerulo, farbizisto, indutistulo, piktistoIdo
- pittore, barbetta, pittrice, [[cima]] da [[ormeggio]], verniciatore, [[cima]] da [[rimorchio]]Italian
- ציירHebrew
- 画家, 絵かきJapanese
- მხატვარიGeorgian
- ವರ್ಣಚಿತ್ರಕಾರKannada
- 畫家, 화가Korean
- pictrix, pictorLatin
- MolerLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- мо́лер, боја́џија, сли́кар, сли́каркаMacedonian
- malerNorwegian
- kunstschilder, schilder, huisschilderDutch
- yidleeshí, naʼachʼąąhíNavajo, Navaho
- ଚିତ୍ରକରOriya
- malarz, malarkaPolish
- pintor, proiz, pintoraPortuguese
- pictor, pictorițăRomanian
- худо́жник, фали́нь, маля́р, живопи́сецRussian
- сликар, slȉkarica, slȉkār, сликаркаSerbo-Croatian
- maliarSlovak
- piktor, ballamar, bojaxhiAlbanian
- målare, konstnärSwedish
- చిత్రకారుడుTelugu
- ressam, boyacıTurkish
- худо́жникUkrainian
- thợ sơn, họa sĩVietnamese
- jipänan, jikölan, hipänan, hikölan, pänan, kölanVolapük
- pondeu, pondeu d' bastimint, pinte, mwaisse pondeuWalloon
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