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artist

noun US /ˈɑːrtəst/

a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

How often you will meet it

Rank 2,175 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,098 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination also: creative person

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

artist in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1

  • As artist, sculptor, poet, musician, he could not be approached by any living being.

    The Mark of the Beast · Sydney Watson · Chapter 1

  • The artist, then, like the thinker or the scientist, seeks the truth and makes his appeal.

    The nigger of the "Narcissus" · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 1

  • She was the daughter of a dissolute, evil-tempered artist whom I had met at a Bohemian club.

    The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1

  • The Celestial Pilot The Terrestrial Paradise Beatrice To Italy Seven Sonnets and a Canzone I. The Artist II.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1

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