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paintership

paintership noun: the state or position of being a painter.

Noun

paintership (usually uncountable, plural painterships)

  1. (usually) The state or position of being a painter.
    • Admit also a curious cunning painter, to be chief painter, let him strive also to continue still in his chief paintership, lest another pass him in cunning, and so have the name of chief painter from him, because he is more worthy than he.1535, Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia

Forms of paintership

pluralpainterships

Origin of paintership

From painter + -ship.

Questions about paintership

What does paintership mean?
Paintership means the state or position of being a painter.
What part of speech is paintership?
Paintership is a noun.
What is the plural of paintership?
The plural of paintership is painterships.

Words near paintership in the dictionary

  1. painterless
  2. painterlike
  3. painterliness
  4. painterly
  5. painters
  6. paintership
  7. painterships
  8. paintery
  9. paintest
  10. painteth
  11. paintier

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