artist
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art·ist

noun \ˈär-tist\

Definition of ARTIST

1
a obsolete : one skilled or versed in learned arts
b archaic : physician
c archaic : artisan 1
2
a : one who professes and practices an imaginative art
b : a person skilled in one of the fine arts
3
: a skilled performer; especially : artiste
4
: one who is adept at something <con artist> <strikeout artist>

Examples of ARTIST

  1. the great artists of the Renaissance
  2. <a pitcher who is a strikeout artist>

First Known Use of ARTIST

circa 1507

Other Fine Arts Terms

Gothic, baroque, bas-relief, limn, oeuvre, pastiche, rococo, sfumato

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