Definitions for Painter

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Painter paint·er

Spelling: [peyn-ter]

IPA: /ˈpeɪn tər/

Painter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in Painter (aeinprt).

Definitions for Painter

noun

1. an artist who paints pictures.
2. a person who coats walls or other surfaces with paint, especially as an occupation.
3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Pictor.
4. a rope, usually at the bow, for fastening a boat to a ship, stake, etc.
5. cougar.

Origin of Painter

1300-50; paint + er¹; replacing Middle English peyntour Anglo-French peintour

Examples for Painter

But Marsden Hartley was a 20th-century painter, slow as oil paint from a brush.

"Compare the living face with the pictured one," said the painter.

A painter friend who lives by the sea has asked me to stay with him awhile.

In May he attended the inauguration of a museum to house the works of the Ecuadorian painter Santiago Carbonell in Querétaro.

The painter can accumulate ugliness, but I do not remember a demon worth the name.

While he was intent on these observations, Elinor turned to the painter.

You code the same way a writer writes his book and the painter paints his picture.

And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.

Calvert, my friend, is a lover as well as a painter of nature.

According to some rumors, Goya was once on staff before his fame as a Spanish painter.