noun
Meaning 1
A person who draws caricatures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
caricaturist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/
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CMU ARPABET: K EH1 R AH0 K AH0 CH ER0 AH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: parodist, lampooner
Narrower terms: Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Italian caricare Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Italian -tura Italian caricatùrabor. French caricaturebor. English caricature Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English caricaturist From caricature + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: caricaturista — person who draws caricatures
- Chinese Mandarin: 漫畫家 /漫画家 (mànhuàjiā) — person who draws caricatures
- Chinese Mandarin: 諷刺畫家 /讽刺画家 (fěngcìhuàjiā) — person who draws caricatures
- Czech: karikaturista — person who draws caricatures
- Danish: karikaturtegner — person who draws caricatures
- Esperanto: karikaturisto — person who draws caricatures
- Esperanto: virkarikaturisto — person who draws caricatures
- Esperanto: karikaturistino — person who draws caricatures
- Finnish: karikatyristi — person who draws caricatures
- French: caricaturiste — person who draws caricatures
- German: Karikaturist — person who draws caricatures
- German: Karikaturistin — person who draws caricatures
- German: Karikaturenzeichner — person who draws caricatures
- German: Karikaturenzeichnerin — person who draws caricatures
- Greek: καρικατουρίστας (karikatourístas) — person who draws caricatures
- Greek: γελοιογράφος (geloiográfos) — person who draws caricatures
- Hebrew: קָרִיקָטוּרִיסט — person who draws caricatures
- Hungarian: karikaturista — person who draws caricatures
- Kazakh: карикатурашы (karikaturaşy) — person who draws caricatures
- Norwegian Bokmål: karikaturtegner — person who draws caricatures
- Norwegian Nynorsk: karikaturteiknar — person who draws caricatures
- Persian: کاریکاتوریست (kârikâturist) — person who draws caricatures
- Portuguese: caricaturista — person who draws caricatures
- Romanian: caricaturist — person who draws caricatures
- Romanian: caricaturistă — person who draws caricatures
- Russian: карикатури́ст (karikaturíst) — person who draws caricatures
- Russian: карикатури́стка (karikaturístka) — person who draws caricatures
- Spanish: caricaturista — person who draws caricatures
- Swedish: karikatyrtecknare — person who draws caricatures
- Volapük: karigan — person who draws caricatures
- Volapük: hikarigan — person who draws caricatures
- Volapük: jikarigan — person who draws caricatures
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