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name
A surname transferred from the common noun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A town in Accomack County, Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An artist who paints pictures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A mountain lion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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noun
large American feline resembling a lion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, panther, Felis concolor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wildcat
noun
a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: line
noun
an artist who paints
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: artist, creative person
Narrower terms: abstractionist, abstract artist, colorist, cubist, dauber, distortionist, Fauve, fauvist, genre painter, impressionist, landscapist, miniaturist, muralist, oil painter, old master, pointillist, portraitist, portrait painter, portrayer, limner, Postimpressionist, Post-impressionist, realist, scenic artist, scene painter, watercolorist, watercolourist, Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti, Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen, Benton, Thomas Hart Benton, Blake, William Blake, Braque, Georges Braque, Cezanne, Paul Cezanne, Chagall, Marc Chagall, Chirico, Giorgio de Chirico, Constable, John Constable, Copley, John Copley, John Singleton Copley, Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Courbet, Gustave Courbet, Dali, Salvador Dali, Daumier, Honore Daumier, David, Jacques Louis David, Davis, Stuart Davis, Degas, Edgar Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Delacroix, Eugene Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Derain, Andre Derain, Dufy, Raoul Dufy, Ernst, Max Ernst, Fragonard, Jean Honore Fragonard, Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry, Gainsborough, Thomas Gainsborough, Gauguin, Paul Gauguin, Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti, Goya, Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Goya, Francisco de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant, Gris, Jaun Gris, Hassam, Childe Hassam, Frederick Childe Hassam, Hokusai, Katsushika Hokusai, Homer, Winslow Homer, Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Kandinsky, Wassily Kandinsky, Kandinski, Wassily Kandinski, Kent, Rockwell Kent, Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Klee, Paul Klee, Klimt, Gustav Klimt, Kline, Franz Kline, Franz Joseph Kline, Krasner, Lee Krasner, Lawrence, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Leger, Fernand Leger, Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein, Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Magritte, Rene Magritte, Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, Manet, Edouard Manet, Mantegna, Andrea Mantegna, Marsh, Reginald Marsh, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, Millet, Jean Francois Millet, Miro, Joan Miro, Modigliani, Amedeo Modigliano, Monet, Claude Monet, Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Moses, Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Motherwell, Robert Motherwell, Munch, Edvard Munch, Murillo, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, O'Keeffe, Georgia Okeeffe, Parrish, Maxfield Parrish, Maxfield Frederick Parrish, Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Reynolds, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rothko, Mark Rothko, Rousseau, Henri Rousseau, Le Douanier Rousseau, Sargent, John Singer Sargent, Seurat, Georges Seurat, Georges Pierre Seurat, Shahn, Ben Shahn, Benjamin Shahn, Siqueiros, David Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Soutine, Chaim Soutine, Stella, Frank Stella, Frank Philip Stella, Stuart, Gilbert Stuart, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Sully, Thomas Sully, Tanguy, Yves Tanguy, Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Tobey, Mark Tobey, Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Trumbull, John Trumbull, Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Utrillo, Maurice Utrillo, van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, Gogh, Vasarely, Viktor Vasarely, Vasari, Giorgio Vasari, Vigee-Lebrun, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Vlaminck, Maurice de Vlaminck, Vuillard, Edouard Vuillard, Jean Edouard Vuillard, Warhol, Andy Warhol, Weber, Max Weber, West, Benjamin West, Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Wood, Grant Wood, Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth
noun
a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
Narrower terms: finisher, house painter, letterer, scene painter, sign painter, stippler
History
See painter.
Inherited from Middle English peyntour, from Old French peintor, equivalent to paint + -er.
Probably from Middle French pendeur.
From a variation of panther, paralleling other Southern pronunciations for can't and aunt (see ain't for more details).
Across languages
305 source translations are retained for this English entry.
