calligrapher

American  

[kuh-lig-ruhf-er] / kəˈlɪg rəf ər /

noun

• calligraphers
  plural

1. someone who practices calligraphy as an art or profession.

2. (with modifier) someone who writes by hand.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• calligraphers
  plural

Example Sentences

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But spare a thought for the calligrapher who wrote it.

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned the project and Donald Jackson, an internationally known calligrapher from Monmouth, Wales, in 1998.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

Kristen Langer is an art teacher and calligrapher who is planning to set up virtual wallets for her niece and nephew as a present.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

Use white paint to create a simple pattern like polka-dots or pinstripes, or break out your inner calligrapher and write folks' names in front of their assigned seat.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021

He was a calligrapher second to none, a poet, and he had as well a remarkable singing voice.

From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá

While engraving and letterpress machines can operate 24 hours per day, calligraphers can’t.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022

Yet not all of the artists are calligraphers, and not all of the calligraphy is Chinese.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

“The skilled calligraphers and illuminators have created something more than an artifact of a particular religion or group,” Parish said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2018

The scurry, and the claws, may be said to have a cause in evolution by natural selection, which works on organisms and parts thereof as traditional calligraphers work on Japanese scrolls, imperfectly but with elegance.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016

Persian calligraphers had taught its use afresh to the Byzantine scribes.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley