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designer

[ dih-zahy-ner ]

/ dɪˈzaɪ nər /

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noun

a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.

a schemer, intriguer, or plotter.

adjective

designed or created by or carrying a label or identification of a designer, especially a fashion designer, but often mass-produced: designer jeans.

created for intentional effect through chemical or genetic modification, as for a designer drug, or through crossbreeding, as for a designer dog.

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Origin of designer

First recorded in 1640–50; design + -er¹

OTHER WORDS FROM designer

self-de·sign·er, noun

Words nearby designer

designated hitter, designation, designed, designedly, designee, designer, designer baby, designer dog, designer drug, designer gene, designing

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How to use designer in a sentence

His zero-waste yarn is now slowly garnering the attention of sustainable designers around the world.
How a Wasteland Shrub Is Becoming the Next Big Thing in Fashion|Daniel Malloy|August 28, 2020|Ozy
Our June Insights puzzle featured a designer puppy named Dax who is a “Pomsky,” combining a Siberian husky’s handsome wolflike face with the size and fluffiness of a Pomeranian.
How to Design (or at Least Model) Mixed Dog Breeds|Pradeep Mutalik|July 31, 2020|Quanta Magazine
A human designer then selects the best options to present to the client.
This Russian Firm’s Star Designer Is an AI—but No One Knew That for a Year|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|July 24, 2020|Singularity Hub
The celebrated graphic designer had just turned 90 years old, perhaps defying expectations that he would live so long given his battle with kidney disease and a cornucopia of small pains and ticks that appear with age.
Milton Glaser’s brilliant last year|Anne Quito|July 8, 2020|Quartz

Within the mask market, a small high-end segment has emerged in the form of pricey designer masks and sought-after styles that trade at a premium on resale sites.
The luxury face mask has arrived|Marc Bain|July 7, 2020|Quartz
A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen|Sharon Adarlo|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Early in her career, she and designer Madeleine Vionnet sued a woman in Paris for copying some 20,000 sketches of their designs.
The Big Business of Fashion Counterfeits|Lizzie Crocker|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibit exhaustively distinguishes designer pieces from licensed copies, adaptations, and fakes.
The Big Business of Fashion Counterfeits|Lizzie Crocker|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You stayed there for five days, with your very good friend, Daisy Hennifer, the jewelry designer.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The books lining the walls were real, he noticed idly—another painstaking point by the designer of the palace.
The Envoy, Her|Horace Brown Fyfe
Who could look upon such a scene and not praise the Designer?
Mary Gray|Katharine Tynan
There may be a struggle outside the design, in the mind of the designer.
Line and Form (1900)|Walter Crane

British Dictionary definitions for designer

designer

/ (dɪˈzaɪnə) /

noun

a person who devises and executes designs, as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc

(modifier) designed by and bearing the label or signature of a well-known fashion designerdesigner jeans

(modifier) (of things, ideas, etc) having an appearance of fashionable trendinessdesigner pop songs; designer stubble

(modifier) (of cells, chemicals, etc) designed (or produced) to perform a specific function or combat a specific problemdesigner insecticide

(modifier) (of an animal) cross-bred for a specific purpose, such as looks, temperament, or likelihood of causing an allergydesigner dogs

a person who devises plots or schemes; intriguer

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