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
Other Word Forms
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
Example Sentences
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At times Stana appears to have worked as a decorator in London.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
"I feel the safest I've ever been," said Liberty Mini, a 33-year-old interior decorator originally from Burundi, who has lived in Lagos for three years.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
Growing up in Roslyn, N.Y., where his mother was an interior decorator and his father ran a small business selling restaurant supplies, Gary had admired the “Great Gatsby”-style estates along Long Island’s Gold Coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
In the elevator I imagine a bird decorator who’s wearing my dad’s glasses—the funky rectangular ones he wears when he has a meeting—and flipping through a bird-size binder full of twig samples.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
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
You have set builders and set decorators and hair, makeup, all kinds of things.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
"We have a whole in-game economy of players that are home decorators," says Matt.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2024
We can’t go in Heather’s room because the decorators aren’t finished.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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