artisan
[ahr-tuh-zuh n]
- a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- a person or company that makes a high-quality or distinctive product in small quantities, usually by hand or using traditional methods: our favorite local food artisans.
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- pertaining to an artisan or the product of an artisan; artisanal: artisan beer.
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Origin of artisan
Synonym study
See artist.
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Contemporary Examples
The relationship between artist and artisan is therefore very symbiotic, says Hetflaisz.
Szymon Oltarzewski is a Polish-born artisan who is also a sculptor in his own right.
When the artist themselves is often continents away, those artistic decisions are made by the artisan.
But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.
But big corporations are taking shortcuts and pricing the artisan products out of the bar...and out of business.
Historical Examples
It traded with all the world and offered a safe home to the merchant and to the artisan.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
But the majority of the immigrants were of the artisan class and illiterate.
The Romance of NamesErnest Weekley
The tradesman was put to his trade and the artisan to his calling.
A Study In ScarletArthur Conan Doyle
There is one boy to linger about the forge of an artisan, after the others have gone.
Child and CountryWill Levington Comfort
It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan.
More Peers VersesHilaire Belloc
artisan
- a skilled workman; craftsman
- obsolete an artist
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Word Origin
C16: from French, from Old Italian artigiano, from arte art 1
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Word Origin and History for artisan
n.
1530s, from Italian artesano, from Vulgar Latin artitianus, from Latin artitus, past participle of artire "to instruct in the arts," from ars (genitive artis) "art" (see art (n.)). Barnhart reports Middle French artisan, often listed as the direct source of the English word, is attested too late to be so.
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adj.
1859, from artisan (n.).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper