Painter Definition

pāntər
painters
noun
painters
One who paints, either as an artist or worker.
American Heritage
A person whose work is covering surfaces, as walls, with paint.
Webster's New World
A rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it as to a dock or for towing it.
Webster's New World

Cougar.

Webster's New World

(US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

A surname.

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Other Word Forms of Painter

Noun

Singular:
painter
Plural:
painters

Origin of Painter

  • Middle English peintour probably from Old French pentoir strong rope from pendre to hang from Vulgar Latin pendere from Latin pendēre (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • paint + -er, influenced by Middle French paintre.

    From Wiktionary

  • See painter.

    From Wiktionary

Painter Sentence Examples

  • His success at this period as a painter was considerable.

  • There was once a painter whose name was Zeuxis. He could paint pictures so life-like that they were mistaken for the real things which they represented.

  • It was the birthplace of the painter Pietro Vannucci (Perugino), and possesses several of his works, but none of the first rank.

  • On his return to Berlin he studied art under the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch and the painter and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), proving himself in the end a good draughtsman, a born architect and an excellent landscape gardener.

  • As a painter of nature she has much in common with Wordsworth.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAI

Words Ending With

RERTER

Unscrambles

painter

Words Starting With P and Ending With R

Starts With P & Ends With RStarts With PA & Ends With RStarts With P & Ends With ER

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With R