ARTISAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artisan mean? 

• ARTISAN (noun)
  The noun ARTISAN has 1 sense:

1. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

  Familiarity information: ARTISAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTISAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman

Hypernyms ("artisan" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artisan"):

tanner (a craftsman who tans skins and hides)

miller (someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill))

paperer; paperhanger (one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper)

pipe fitter; plumber (a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances)

ceramicist; ceramist; potter; thrower (a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln)

rigger (someone who rigs ships)

roofer (a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs)

rope-maker; ropemaker; roper (a craftsman who makes ropes)

steamfitter (a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating)

bookbinder (a worker whose trade is binding books)

animal stuffer; stuffer; taxidermist (a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display)

upholsterer (a craftsman who upholsters furniture)

weaver (a craftsman who weaves cloth)

welder (joins pieces of metal by welding them together)

window dresser; window trimmer (someone who decorates shop windows)

woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

machinist; mechanic; shop mechanic (a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools)

beautician; cosmetician (someone who works in a beauty parlor)

bricklayer (a craftsman skilled in building with bricks)

clockmaker; clocksmith (someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches)

coachbuilder (a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles)

construction worker; hard hat (a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc.)

barrel maker; cooper (a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs)

coppersmith (someone who makes articles from copper)

currier (a craftsman who curries leather for use)

die-sinker; diemaker; diesinker (someone who makes dies)

glassblower (someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass)

glass-cutter; glass cutter; glassworker; glazer; glazier (someone who cuts flat glass to size)

gold-beater; goldbeater (an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf)

hairdresser; hairstylist; styler; stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)

luthier (a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins))

mason; stonemason (a craftsman who works with stone or brick)

Instance hyponyms:

Morris; William Morris (English poet and craftsman (1834-1896))

 Context examples 

It occurs in tennis players as well as housewives, artisans, and violinists.

(Lateral Epicondylitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

You have shown me the work of the real artificer-artisan.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The researchers found that these patients were infected with the same varieties of parasite found in artisan açaí juice they had consumed days earlier.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

A stream of returning knights, of wounded soldiers, and of unransomed French noblemen, had been for a quarter of a century continually pouring into England, every one of whom exerted an influence in the direction of greater domestic refinement, while shiploads of French furniture from Calais, Rouen, and other plundered towns, had supplied our own artisans with models on which to shape their work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Artisan juice made with açaí, the fruit of a palm that grows in the rainforests of northern Brazil, could be a major source of infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)