decorator
Americannoun
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a person whose profession is the painting and wallpapering of buildings
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a person who decorates
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Etymology
Origin of decorator
Explanation
A decorator is a person whose job involves decorating rooms — fixing them up, painting, arranging furniture, and so on. Your uncle might hire a decorator to help him furnish his brand new, fancy vacation home. You can also call a decorator a designer or an interior designer. Skilled decorators are particularly good at combining colors, fabrics, rugs, and furniture styles to make a good-looking space. Even if you're not a professional decorator, you could offer to help a friend decorate her apartment, painting her walls bright orange and sewing fuzzy green pillows for her sofa. Decorator comes from the Latin word decorare, "to adorn, embellish, or beautify."
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David Sanchez, a 48-year-old painter and decorator, had just returned home to Cebreros after evacuating at the weekend to find that his small olive and pistachio grove had been consumed by the inferno.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
While traveling with Ildr, he has dreams of his life as a decorator, creating an “Inception”-style circuit of realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
We begin at the end of a “Save the Frogs” fundraiser at the country club, presented by Josh and Lindsay, who helped put it on and who works there as a freelance interior decorator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Taufic Suleman, a painter and decorator from Ghana, felt "irritated" when the foreign minister announced that IShowSpeed, who grew up in the US but has a Ghanaian mother, had been approved for a passport.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
I was a child of the South Side, now raising daughters who slept in rooms designed by a high-end interior decorator and who could custom order their breakfast from a chef.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
This is especially true for the oversize ones, which holiday decorators say are superior in quality and creativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
And yet: If the White House’s furniture, paintings, and wallpaper inspire the fervent scrutiny of the nation’s interior decorators, it is because meatier changes have been so rare.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
Some became dog walkers and decorators; others, chimney sweeps.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
You have set builders and set decorators and hair, makeup, all kinds of things.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
The room itself was what decorators would probably call severe.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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