Definitions for artist
ˈɑr tɪstartist

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. artist, creative personnoun

   a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 4 votes

1. artistnoun

   A person who creates art.

2. artistnoun

   A person who creates art as an occupation.

3. artistnoun

   A person who is skilled at some activity.

4. artistadjective

   Artistic.

5. Etymology: From artiste, from artista, from late artista, from ars.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Artistnoun

   Etymology: artiste, Fr.

   1. The professor of an art, generally of an art manual.

   How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
   Instruct the artists, and reward their haste. Edmund Waller.

   Rich with the spoils of many a conquer’d land,
   All arts and artists Theseus could command,
   Who sold for hire, or wrought for better fame:
   The master painters and the carvers came. John Dryden, Fables.

   When I made this, an artist undertook to imitate it; but using another way, fell much short. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   2. A skilful man; not a novice.

   If any one thinks himself an artist at this, let him number up the parts of his child’s body. John Locke.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Artistnoun

   one who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan

2. Artistnoun

   one who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution

3. Artistnoun

   one who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation

4. Artistnoun

   an artful person; a schemer

FreebaseRate this definition:2.3 / 7 votes

1. Artist

   An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers. "Artiste" is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Artist

   ärt′ist, n. one who practises an art, esp. one of the fine arts, as painting, sculpture, engraving, or architecture.—adjs. Artist′ic, -al, according to art.—adv. Artist′ically.—n. Art′istry, artistic pursuits: artistic workmanship, quality, or ability. [Fr. artiste, It. artista—L. ars, artis, art.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Artist

   according to a definition of Ruskin, which he prints in small caps., "a person who has submitted to a law which it was painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow." Artists, Prince of

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ARTIST

   Commonly, the individual long haired and short-suited, having a positive pose and an uncertain income. Often shy on meal-tickets but strong on technique and the price of tripe sandwiches. An artist may be a barber, a boot-black, a Sargent or a Paderewski.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. artist

   A name formerly applied to those mariners who were also expert navigators.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. artist

   A person with the accurate and specific ability, experience, skills, knowledge, role and responsibility to create art, artwork, music, lyrics or various other forms of art or creativity.

   There are so many artists around the world that bring such joy to people.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 1, 2020  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Artist

   Art vs. Artist -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Art and Artist.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ARTIST

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Artist is ranked #40144 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Artist surname appeared 546 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Artist.
   
   54.7% or 299 total occurrences were Black.
   38.4% or 210 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'artist' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2491

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'artist' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4803

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'artist' in Nouns Frequency: #588

Anagrams for artist »

1. strait

2. strati

3. traits

How to pronounce artist?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of artist in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of artist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of artist in a Sentence

1. Islam Minister Farrakhan:

   He lived the gang life, but he didn't stay there, sometimes when you can fly above the circumstances of your life, it produce envy and enmity and jealousy among those who have not learned how to fly, but Samuel Asghedom was more than a hip-hop artist. He was a voice and brilliant mind, and the spirit of God was in his life.

2. Václav Havel:

   There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

3. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña:

   If the lights would have been turned on --( if) the promoter or the artist called for that -- Live Nation would have chilled the crowd, and who knows ? Who knows what the outcome would have been ? But everybody in that venue, starting from the artist on down, has a responsibility for public safety.

4. Ryan Pressly:

   It's fun to watch him, i wish we had a better view instead of all the way out in the bullpen. It's fun to watch how he manipulates pitches, the way he moves them in and out. We were talking about it in the clubhouse: He's like an artist when he's out there.

5. American Duran:

   I've worked bareknuckle fights where a guy had 10 cuts, i'm like an artist working all over his face and you work on the priority cuts that are a major disadvantage like if they are causing blood to go in your eyes.

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