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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Noun Inflected Forms
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."
Vocabulary lists containing decorator
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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
Howett considered if the ring could have come from a member of her family, or a decorator who had been in her house the week before.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
For the costumes and sets, the technology was trained using sketches by Henri de Gissey, a costume designer and decorator for the court of King Louis XIV.
From Barron's ● May 4, 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
Davenport was running through some last-minute changes with the set decorator.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
We see little of either property, just the spaces in which Trump meets with her trusted staff of stylists, event planners and interior decorators.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
Rain on parade morning muddied things for engineers and decorators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026
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
Jim had brought a big clear plastic sheet, of the sort decorators use to cover floors, and was trying to rig it across the open front of the shelter.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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