artisan

• artizan (obsolete)

From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/, /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹtɪzən/, /ˈɑɹtɪsən/

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artisan (plural artisans)

1. A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
   • 1958 March, G. H. Robin, “Railways of Paisley, Renfrew and Barrhead—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 159:

     One or two works, particularly those of Babcock & Wilcox, are on the Renfrew line, and the passenger services are run to suit the artisan rather than the businessman travelling daily to the city.

2. A person who displays great dexterity.

artisan (not comparable)

1. Artisanal.
   • 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:

     Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).

   • 2016 December 2, Jonathan Prynn, “Pavilion Road: artisan food and drink street opens near Sloane Square”, in The Standard‎^[1]:

     Cartier and Tiffany have some unlikely new neighbours near Sloane Square — a butcher, a greengrocer and a cheesemonger. […] The row of artisan food and drink shops also includes a wine merchant. A bakery is due to open in time for Christmas and a tenant is being sought for a sixth unit.

• “artisan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “artisan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “artisan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina

Borrowed from Italian artigiano, Inherited from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“to instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ti.zɑ̃/

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artisan m (plural artisans, feminine artisane)

1. artisan (manual worker)
2. (figuratively) creator; innovator; inventor; architect

• artisanal
• artisanat

• “artisan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).

• IPA^(key): [arˈtisan]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ti‧san

artisan (plural artisan-artisan)

1. artisan

   Synonyms: perajin, pengrajin, tukang

• “artisan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /artiˈzaŋ/

artisan m

1. craftsman, artisan