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artisan

[ ahr-tuh-zuhn ]

noun

  1. a person skilled in a utilitarian art, trade, or craft, especially one requiring manual skill; a craftsperson.
  2. 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.



adjective

  1. pertaining to an artisan or the product of an artisan; artisanal:

    artisan beer.

artisan

/ ɑːˈtɪzənəl; ˈɑːtɪˌzæn; ˈɑːtɪzənəl; ˌɑːtɪˈzæn /

noun

  1. a skilled workman; craftsman
  2. obsolete.
    an artist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • artisanal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • ar·ti·san·ship noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of artisan1

First recorded in 1530–40; from French, from Italian artigiano, equivalent to Latin artīt(us) “trained in arts and crafts” (past participle of artīre ) + Italian -iano (from Latin -iānus ); art 1, -ite 2, -ian
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Word History and Origins

Origin of artisan1

C16: from French, from Old Italian artigiano, from arte art 1
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Example Sentences

Made in collaboration with New Hampshire artisan Linny Kenney, these hand-dyed vegetable-tanned leather gloves are meant to age beautifully while protecting your hands from hot surfaces.

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The bar sourced tools by local artisans like the Parra family in Michoacan, who have been working copper for generations.

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Many of the artisans have intellectual and other disabilities, and about half are nonverbal.

Although the Kimdio has the look of an artisan coffee mug, it’s actually made of high quality ceramic that is dishwasher and microwave-save, and non-toxic.

On Trade Days, my cousins would sell their pottery to tourists, while other artisans would sell paintings, woodworking, and other objets d’art.

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.

Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."

These Orchestras are chiefly selected from the ranks of the people, of whom the artisan is the chief contributor.

If an artisan has taken a son to bring up, and has caused him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim.

I am a mere artisan in composition, but you will be an artist, in the fullest sense of the word.

She was the child of an artisan who had been killed by the Burgundians in the woods of Boulogne-la-Grande.

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