Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.
- noun A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill.
- noun One, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.
- noun One who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of especial skill or ability in any field; one who is highly accomplished; especially, one versed in the liberal arts.
- noun One skilled in a trade; one who is master of a manual art; a good workman in any trade: as, a tonsorial artist.
- noun One who practises any one, or any branch, of the fine arts; specifically, a painter or a sculptor.
- noun A member of one of the histrionic professions, as an actor, a tenor, or a dancer.
- noun In universities, a student in the faculty of arts.
- noun One who practises artifice; a trickster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
- noun One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
- noun One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
- noun obsolete An artful person; a schemer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who creates
art . - noun A person who creates art as an occupation.
- noun A person who is
skilled at someactivity . - adjective archaic
Artistic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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You can select from two other preset expressions, or input your own variation such as \$artist - $album\, or any combination of the variables $artist, $album, and $ignore.
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Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define like %artist% - %title%, it can make music playlists, and search online databases like freedb and Amazon to automatically tag music missing information.
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Woman or artist -- there's no word so naked and empty to me as just _artist_ ---- "
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I will use her term "artist and muse," which they each were for each other.
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I will use her term "artist and muse," which they each were for each other.
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Some people probably object to me using the term artist about such a lowly profession.
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The main artist is Karl Kerschl, whose style leans away from what Douglas Wolk calls the "default style of the superhero mainstream" toward a half-cartoony look.
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The main artist is Karl Kerschl, whose style leans away from what Douglas Wolk calls the "default style of the superhero mainstream" toward a half-cartoony look.
oroboros commented on the word artist
The fifth speaker on the schedule stood and delivered the following: "The Premise: If you're an artist and your work is cheap and derivative--do self-portraits. The Premise's Evil-Twin Stink-Bomb:You're all a bunch of artists."
--Jan Cox
April 6, 2007