colorist

English

Alternative forms

  • colourist (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, India)

Etymology

From color +‎ -ist.

Noun

colorist (plural colorists)

  1. One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
    • 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
  2. A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
  3. (loosely) One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.

References

  • OED2

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coloriste.

Noun

colorist m (plural coloriști)

  1. colorist

Declension

Declension of colorist
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative colorist coloristul coloriști coloriștii
genitive-dative colorist coloristului coloriști coloriștilor
vocative coloristule coloriștilor
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