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PAINTER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large American feline resembling a lion

Synonyms:

catamount; cougar; Felis concolor; mountain lion; painter; panther; puma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("painter" is a kind of...):

wildcat (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

Holonyms ("painter" is a member of...):

Felis; genus Felis (type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("painter" is a kind of...):

line (something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible)

Domain category:

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An artist who paints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("painter" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "painter"):

abstract artist; abstractionist (a painter of abstract pictures)

colorist (a painter able to achieve special effects with color)

cubist (an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism)

dauber (an unskilled painter)

distortionist (a painter who introduces distortions)

Fauve; fauvist (a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism)

genre painter (a painter of scenes from everyday life)

impressionist (a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism)

landscapist (someone who paints landscapes)

miniaturist (someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail)

muralist (a painter of murals)

oil painter (a painter who uses oil paints)

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)

pointillist (a painter who uses the technique of pointillism)

limner; portrait painter; portraitist; portrayer (a painter or drawer of portraits)

Post-impressionist; Postimpressionist (an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism)

realist (a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style)

scene painter; scenic artist (an artist specializing in scenic subjects)

watercolorist; watercolourist (a painter who paints with watercolors)

Instance hyponyms:

Alberti; Leon Battista Alberti (Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472))

Bell; Vanessa Bell; Vanessa Stephen (English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961))

Benton; Thomas Hart Benton (United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975))

Blake; William Blake (visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827))

Braque; Georges Braque (French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963))

Cezanne; Paul Cezanne (French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906))

Chagall; Marc Chagall (French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985))

Chirico; Giorgio de Chirico (Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978))

Constable; John Constable (English landscape painter (1776-1837))

Copley; John Copley; John Singleton Copley (American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815))

Corot; Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875))

Courbet; Gustave Courbet (French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877))

Dali; Salvador Dali (surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989))

Daumier; Honore Daumier (French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879))

David; Jacques Louis David (French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825))

Davis; Stuart Davis (United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964))

Degas; Edgar Degas; Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French impressionist painter (1834-1917))

de Kooning; Willem de Kooning (United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997))

Delacroix; Eugene Delacroix; Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (French romantic painter (1798-1863))

Andre Derain; Derain (French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954))

Dufy; Raoul Dufy (French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953))

Ernst; Max Ernst (painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976))

Fragonard; Jean Honore Fragonard (French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806))

Fry; Roger Eliot Fry; Roger Fry (English painter and art critic (1866-1934))

Gainsborough; Thomas Gainsborough (English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788))

Gauguin; Paul Gauguin (French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903))

Alberto Giacometti; Giacometti (Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966))

Francisco de Goya; Francisco Goya; Francisco Jose de Goya; Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes; Goya; Goya y Lucientes (Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828))

Duncan Grant; Duncan James Corrow Grant; Grant (Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978))

Gris; Jaun Gris (Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927))

Childe Hassam; Frederick Childe Hassam; Hassam (United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935))

Hokusai; Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849))

Homer; Winslow Homer (United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910))

Ingres; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French classical painter (1780-1867))

Kandinski; Kandinsky; Wassily Kandinski; Wassily Kandinsky (Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944))

Kent; Rockwell Kent (United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971))

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; Kirchner (German expressionist painter (1880-1938))

Klee; Paul Klee (Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940))

Gustav Klimt; Klimt (Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918))

Franz Joseph Kline; Franz Kline; Kline (United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962))

Krasner; Lee Krasner (United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984))

Lawrence; Sir Thomas Lawrence (English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830))

Fernand Leger; Leger (French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955))

Lichtenstein; Roy Lichtenstein (United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997))

L. S. Lowry; Laurence Stephen Lowry; Lowry (English painter (1887-1976))

Magritte; Rene Magritte (Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967))

Kazimir Malevich; Kazimir Severinovich Malevich; Malevich (Russian abstract painter (1878-1935))

Edouard Manet; Manet (French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883))

Andrea Mantegna; Mantegna (Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506))

Marsh; Reginald Marsh (United States painter (1898-1954))

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse; Henri Matisse; Matisse (French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954))

Jean Francois Millet; Millet (French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875))

Joan Miro; Miro (Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983))

Amedeo Modigliano; Modigliani (Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920))

Claude Monet; Monet (French impressionist painter (1840-1926))

Morse; Samuel F. B. Morse; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse (United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872))

Anna Mary Robertson Moses; Grandma Moses; Moses (United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961))

Motherwell; Robert Motherwell (United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991))

Edvard Munch; Munch (Norwegian painter (1863-1944))

Bartolome Esteban Murillo; Murillo (Spanish painter (1617-1682))

Georgia Okeeffe; O'Keeffe (United States painter (1887-1986))

Maxfield Frederick Parrish; Maxfield Parrish; Parrish (United States painter (1870-1966))

Pablo Picasso; Picasso (prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973))

Jackson Pollock; Pollock (United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956))

Reynolds; Sir Joshua Reynolds (English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792))

Mark Rothko; Rothko (United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970))

Henri Rousseau; Le Douanier Rousseau; Rousseau (French primitive painter (1844-1910))

John Singer Sargent; Sargent (United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925))

Georges Pierre Seurat; Georges Seurat; Seurat (French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891))

Ben Shahn; Benjamin Shahn; Shahn (United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969))

David Alfaro Siqueiros; David Siqueiros; Siqueiros (Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974))

Chaim Soutine; Soutine (French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943))

Frank Philip Stella; Frank Stella; Stella (United States minimalist painter (born in 1936))

Gilbert Charles Stuart; Gilbert Stuart; Stuart (United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828))

Sully; Thomas Sully (United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872))

Tanguy; Yves Tanguy (United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955))

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; Tiepolo (Italian painter (1696-1770))

Mark Tobey; Tobey (United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976))

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec; Toulouse-Lautrec (French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901))

John Trumbull; Trumbull (American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843))

Joseph Mallord William Turner; Turner (English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851))

Maurice Utrillo; Utrillo (French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955))

Gogh; van Gogh; Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890))

Vasarely; Viktor Vasarely (French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997))

Giorgio Vasari; Vasari (Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574))

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Vigee-Lebrun (French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842))

Maurice de Vlaminck; Vlaminck (French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958))

Edouard Vuillard; Jean Edouard Vuillard; Vuillard (French painter (1868-1940))

Andy Warhol; Warhol (United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987))

Max Weber; Weber (United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961))

Benjamin West; West (English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820))

James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Whistler (United States painter (1834-1903))

Grant Wood; Wood (United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942))

Andrew Wyeth; Wyeth (United States painter (born in 1917))

Derivation:

paint (make a painting of)

paint (make a painting)

painterly (having qualities unique to the art of painting)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A worker who is employed to cover objects with paint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("painter" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "painter"):

finisher (a painter who applies a finishing coat)

house painter (a painter of houses a similar buildings)

letterer (a painter of letters)

scene painter (a painter of theatrical scenery)

sign painter (someone who paints signs and billboards etc.)

stippler (a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect))

Derivation:

paint (apply paint to; coat with paint)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He caught the painter and made it fast, and we fell to loading the boat for our very lives.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

What queer fellows your fine painters must be, to think that anybody would venture their lives in such a shapeless old cockleshell as that?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It would require a painter, and no common painter too, to depict my aunt's face as she delivered herself of this very unexpected sentiment, and Miss Murdstone's face as she heard it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in lat. 15º N. and long 25º W., and then cut the painter and let us go.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In painting there are only two dimensions to the canvas, yet you accept the illusion of three dimensions which the art of a painter enables him to throw into the canvas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This means at this time you may move into a new space, see the painters or contractor finish up and leave, or receive new furniture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This worthy gentleman must be one of those great painters of whom I have oft heard brother Bartholomew speak in the old days at Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether he had been born a carpenter, or a coach-painter, any more than he had been born a bird?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then the son said: Now will I show her to you in her own form, and wished that she might become a maiden, and she stood there looking so beautiful that no painter could have made her look more so.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)