painter
pronunciation
How to pronounce painter in British English:
UK [ˈpeɪntə(r)]
How to pronounce painter in American English:
US [ˈpeɪntər]
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- Noun:
- an artist who paints
- 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
Word Origin
- painter (n.1)
- "artist who paints pictures," early 14c., from Old French peintor, from Latin pictor "a painter," from pingere (see paint (v.)). Sense of "workman who colors surfaces with paint" is from c. 1400. As a surname, Painter is attested from mid-13c. but it is difficult to say which sense is meant. Related: Painterly.
- painter (n.2)
- mid-14c., "rope or chain that holds an anchor to a ship's side," from Old French peintor, ultimately from Latin pendere "to weigh" (see pendant).
Example
- 1. Murakami is a tender painter of negative spaces .
- 2. But the painter had love interests .
- 3. Painstaking painter was hired to paint a wall of the palace .
- 4. Which expressed the catalan painter 's passion for the republican cause in spain .
- 5. The abstract painter clyfford still is a craggy enigma of american art .