Used in a Sentence

artist

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for artist.

Editorial note

Another was signed to hollywood records, got major label promotion as a VH1 artist to watch with heavy rotation.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A person who creates art.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of artist gathered in one view.

noun

A person who creates art.

noun

A person who creates art as an occupation.

noun

A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for artist.

noun

A person who creates art.

noun

A person who creates art as an occupation.

noun

A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)

noun

A recording artist.

Example sentences

1

Another was signed to hollywood records, got major label promotion as a VH1 artist to watch with heavy rotation.

2

- artifice and artificial - artisan: not exactly artist - trapeze artist - con artist - artifact: not necessarily a work of art.

3

People came to an artist X because he/she gave them that particular flavor that they liked.

4

The penalty in ones convenience is greatly outweighed by the benefit to the indie/DIY artist.

5

Cool to see you can grab an independent artist's design, or upload your own!

6

The only problem was they were from an Etsy store and the artist just collected random, but plausible, image from the web.

7

Had I learned the stuff I might have become a computer graphics artist or something in that area.

8

Normalization risks equating Prince and the artist formerly known as Prince, which is a worse picture of reality for a lot of purposes.

9

Better to be a starving artist waiting tables than to cheapen your artistic skills by selling them to people who don't value them.

10

It could take 15 minutes before a pixel shows up, but that's not a standard case for production test renders in an artist's daily work.

11

She wouldn't stand a chance against any decently trained MMA artist.

12

It doesn't have to get 100% of songs, and when it does get songs, it's perfectly ok for it to not recognize which particular performance a song is from if the artist has multiple versions.

Quote examples

1

By the way, I agree that the same song can be sung by the same artist in multiple versions, especially if it is a "signature song" for the artist.

2

Well according to HN musicians should be artist, developer,sys-admin, graphic designer,sells-man, accountant,lawyer all at the same time because "evil labels".

3

Everyone time i hear that "it's not just the idea, but the people behind it" I feel it more that I should have a con artist in my team to get funded.

4

Startups and labels constantly jockeying for better position to maximize profits, etc etc and so on; the plight of the artist at the bottom of the food chain is generally brushed over, often with the supposed consolation that "it's never been easier to get your music into people's ears".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use artist in a sentence?

Another was signed to hollywood records, got major label promotion as a VH1 artist to watch with heavy rotation.

What does artist mean?

A person who creates art.

What part of speech is artist?

artist is commonly used as noun.