Painter - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
- a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
- large American feline resembling a lion (syn: catamount, cougar, panther, puma)
Extra examples
Gerry's ambition was to become a portrait painter.
The painter climbed high on the ladder.
The painter used dramatic colors.
Bids for the painter's work have been quite high at recent auctions.
The art historian is studying the continuities between the painter's works and those of her followers.
... he was tolerated, if not endorsed as the competent painter he was.
She was a painter for years before she discovered pottery.
The painter arranged several items among drapery and began to work.
...an 18th-century painter whose works are typically of well-dressed gentlefolk wooing and frolicking in sylvan settings...
The apartment's previous occupant was a painter.
...the renowned painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci...
...weary of European civilization, the painter Paul Gauguin famously abandoned France to become a solitary in the South Seas...
...the painter is fond of depicting mute, slightly mysterious figures in arcadian settings...
...the portrait painter's muse for the goddess of love was apparently a common strumpet...
As a painter, he was more than just a technician; he was a creative genius.
Word forms
singular: painter
plural: painters
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