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colorist

colorist noun: one who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.

Noun

colorist (plural colorists)

  1. One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
    • 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...2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023
  2. A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
  3. (broadly) One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.

Forms of colorist

pluralcolorists
alternative Australia Canada India New Zealand Singapore South Africa UKcolourist

Origin of colorist

From color + -ist.

Questions about colorist

What does colorist mean?
Colorist means one who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
What part of speech is colorist?
Colorist is a noun.
What is the plural of colorist?
The plural of colorist is colorists.

Words near colorist in the dictionary

  1. coloriser
  2. colorises
  3. colorising
  4. colorism
  5. colorisms
  6. colorist
  7. coloristic
  8. coloristical
  9. coloristically
  10. colorists
  11. colorization

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