painter
painter Lexical Profile
painter Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An artist who creates pictures or visual compositions by applying pigment to a canvas, wall, or other surface.
"The renowned landscape painter spent weeks in the mountains capturing the shifting autumn light on canvas."
A tradesperson whose occupation is coating the walls, ceilings, or exteriors of buildings and structures with paint.
"We hired a professional painter to prime and coat the exterior siding of our house before winter arrived."
A rope attached to the bow of a small boat or dinghy, used for tying it up to a dock, buoy, or larger vessel.
"The sailor tossed the painter onto the pier and pulled the dinghy securely against the wooden pilings."
American A large, tawny predatory wild cat (Puma concolor) of the family Felidae native to the Americas; a cougar or mountain lion.
"Early settlers in the Appalachian Mountains often heard the eerie scream of a painter echoing through the timber at night."
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Word Origin & Etymology
The artistic and occupational senses come from Middle English peyntour, borrowed from Old French peintor, which derives from Latin pictor ('painter'). The nautical rope sense likely derives from Old French pantiere ('noose, snare'), while the regional American wildlife sense is an phonetic alteration of 'panther'.