painter
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Noun (4)painters
- an artist who paintsType of artist, creative personKinds watercolorist, colorist, cubist, distortionist, realist, landscapist, Postimpressionist, muralist, oil painter, abstractionist +8 moreExamples Picasso, Kent, Benton, Utrillo, Chagall, Stella, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Davis, Soutine, Grant +84 more
- a worker who is employed to cover objects with paintType of skilled worker, trained workerKinds house painter, sign painter, scene painter, letterer, stippler, finisher
- a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)Type of line
- large American feline resembling a lionSynonyms: cougarpumacatamountmountain lionpantherFelis concolorType of wildcatMember of Felis, genus Felis
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Translations
Noun artist who paints pictures
- Spanish
- pintor
- French
- peintre
- German
- Maler
- Italian
- pittore
- Portuguese
- pintor
- Turkish
- ressam
- Russian
- живопи́сец živopísec
- Arabic
- رَسَّام rassām
- Chinese
- 画家 huàjiā
- Japanese
- 画家 gaka
34 more languages
- Dutch
- schilder
- Polish
- malarz
- Swedish
- målare
- Greek
- ζωγράφος zográfos
- Korean
- 화가 hwaga
- Indonesian
- pelukis
- Vietnamese
- họa sĩ
- Hungarian
- festő
- Portuguese (PT)
- pintor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 畫家 huàjiā
- Albanian
- piktor
- Breton
- liver
- Catalan
- pintor
- Czech
- malíř
- Danish
- maler
- Esperanto
- pentristo
- Estonian
- maalikunstnik
- Finnish
- taidemaalari
- Georgian
- მხატვარი mxaṭvari
- Hebrew
- צַיָּר tsayár
- Icelandic
- málari
- Kurdish
- nîgarvan
- Latvian
- gleznotājs
- Lithuanian
- tapytojas
- Norwegian
- maler
- Romanian
- pictor
- Scottish Gaelic
- lì-dhealbhadair
- Serbo-Croatian
- slikar
- Slovak
- maliar
- Slovenian
- slikar
- Swahili
- mchoraji
- Walloon
- pondeu
- Welsh
- peintiwr
- Yiddish
- מאָלער moler
Noun laborer who paints surfaces using a paintbrush
- Spanish
- pintor
- German
- Maler
- Italian
- imbianchino
- Portuguese
- pintor
- Turkish
- boyacı
- Russian
- маля́р maljár
- Arabic
- دَهَّان dahhān
- Chinese
- 油漆工 yóuqīgōng
- Dutch
- schilder
- Swedish
- målare
15 more languages
- Greek
- μπογιατζής bogiatzís
- Vietnamese
- thợ sơn
- Hungarian
- szobafestő
- Portuguese (PT)
- pintor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 油匠 yóujiàng
- Albanian
- bojaxhi
- Czech
- malíř
- Danish
- maler
- Estonian
- maaler
- Finnish
- maalari
- Norwegian
- maler
- Romanian
- vopsitor
- Scottish Gaelic
- lì-dhealbhadair
- Slovak
- maliar
- Welsh
- peintiwr
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. pantière, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. πανθήρα; πᾶς all + θήρ beast; cf. Ir. painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.
Nautical A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Benjamin J. Totten
Origin: Corrupt. of panther.
Zoology The panther, or puma. A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S. J. F. Cooper.
Origin: See 1st Paint.
One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
Painter's colic. Medicine See Lead colic, under Colic. — Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. George Crabb (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54