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artist

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CIDE DICTIONARY

artistn. [F. artiste, LL. artista, fr. L. ars. See Art, n., and cf. Artiste.].
  •  One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.  [1913 Webster]
    "How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
    Instruct the articles and reward their.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.  [1913 Webster]
    " The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects."  Elmes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An artful person; a schemer.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Artisan. See Artisan.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

artist, n.
1 a painter.
2 a person who practises any of the arts.
3 an artiste.
4 a person who works with the dedication and attributes associated with an artist (an artist in crime).
5 colloq. a devotee; a habitual practiser of a specified (usu. reprehensible) activity (con artist).

Derivative
artistry n.
Etymology
F artiste f. It. artista (as ART(1), -IST)

THESAURUS

artist

Admirable Crichton, ace, adept, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artisan, artiste, attache, author, authority, begetter, beginner, belly dancer, builder, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conceiver, concert artist, conjurer, connaisseur, connoisseur, constructor, consultant, copyist, cordon bleu, coryphee, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, craftswoman, creator, dancer, dancing girl, dauber, daubster, dead shot, designer, deviser, diplomat, diplomatist, discoverer, ecdysiast, effector, elder statesman, engenderer, engineer, entertainer, executant, executor, executrix, exotic dancer, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, father, female impersonator, first-rater, founder, geisha, geisha girl, generator, genius, graduate, grower, guisard, guiser, handicraftsman, handy man, hoofer, impersonator, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, interpreter, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maestro, magician, maker, manufacturer, marksman, master, master carpenter, master craftsman, mechanic, minstrel, minstrelsy, mother, mountebank, mummer, music maker, musician, nautch girl, no slouch, old master, organizer, originator, past master, peeler, performer, planner, player, politician, precursor, prentice, prestidigitator, prime mover, pro, prodigy, producer, professional, professor, proficient, public entertainer, raiser, realizer, savant, shaper, shark, sharp, show girl, singer, sire, smith, soloist, statesman, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, technical adviser, technician, topnotcher, tunester, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, virtuosa, virtuoso, whiz, wizard, wonder, wright

ROGET THESAURUS

artist

Artist

N artist, painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver, master, old master, draftsman, draughtsman, copyist, dauber, hack, enamel, enameler, enamelist, caricaturist, historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter, engraver, Apelles, sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary, Phidias, Praxiteles, Royal Academician, photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera buff, wildlife photographer, photo safari, with gun and camera.

Plan

N plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep- laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation), forecast, program, programme, prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant, planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.

Agent

N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.


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