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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites;
- Example: "the Pre-Raphaelite painters"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, a. Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, n. 1. One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism. [1913 Webster] 2. Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Pre-Raphaelite adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre- Raphaelites; "the Pre-Raphaelite painters" n 1: a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals