artist

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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.
2. n. A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill: You are an artist in the kitchen.
3. n. One, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.
4. n. One who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A person of especial skill or ability in any field; one who is highly accomplished; especially, one versed in the liberal arts.
2. n. One skilled in a trade; one who is master of a manual art; a good workman in any trade: as, a tonsorial artist.
3. n. One who practises any one, or any branch, of the fine arts; specifically, a painter or a sculptor.
4. n. A member of one of the histrionic professions, as an actor, a tenor, or a dancer.
5. n. In universities, a student in the faculty of arts.
6. n. One who practises artifice; a trickster.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who creates art.
2. n. A person who creates art as an occupation.
3. n. A person who is skilled at some activity.
4. adj. archaic Artistic.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
2. n. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
3. n. One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
4. n. obsolete An artful person; a schemer.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination