ceramist

[ suh-ram-ist, ser-uh-mist ]

noun

a person who makes ceramics.
a technician in a dental laboratory who makes dentures from porcelain.

Origin of ceramist

¹

First recorded in 1850–55; ceram(ic) + -ist

Also ce·ram·i·cist [suh-ram-uh-sist]. /səˈræm ə sɪst/.

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How to use ceramist in a sentence

The English potter and ceramist Josiah Wedgwood loved the meander.
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Now Pu had discovered those witchcrafts of color, those surprises of grace, that make the art of the ceramist.
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Thus we find him at Svres, a ceramist; he has carried on so many different trades that he succeeds marvelously with this one.
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