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"ARTISTS" is a plural of: artist. |
Date "ARTISTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ARTISTS |
| English words defined with "ARTISTS": acrylic, acrylic paint, art movement, Art union, artistic, artistic movement, Artistical, arty, avant garde ♦ Bloomsbury Group ♦ couch ♦ drawing chalk ♦ Green earth, Greenwich Village ♦ jazz festival ♦ label, Life school, Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent ♦ Megilph, Montmartre ♦ native, naturalism, New Salon ♦ palette, palette knife, pallet, Pasticcio, Porporino, primitivism, Prix de Rome ♦ realism, recording label, rigger, rigger brush, Roman ocher ♦ Sap green, school, surrealism ♦ van, vanguard, village ♦ watercolor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ARTISTS": Academy Figures, APPRAISER, ART, ARTIST AND REPERTOIRE MANAGER ♦ charcoal black, Chaucer of Painting, coelin blue ♦ Drer ♦ INGERSOLL ♦ Lay Figures, Leda and the Swan ♦ Macaber, Marriage Plates, modeling clay ♦ Nous Avons Change Tout Cela ♦ Painters and Artists ♦ rasterbation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Artists, they're pretty existential, huh. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) You see, Mr Bond, like all great artists I want to create one indisputable masterpiece: the death of 007. (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Okay, as part of a new government program, certain artists have been assigned senators to monitor them. (Mr. Show; writing credit: Scott Aukerman; Jerry Collins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4 Artists Paint 1 Tree (1964) Little Artists (1962) Artists and Models (1955) Front Line Artists (1945) Artists and Models Abroad (1938) | |
Song Titles | CHICKEN DANCE (performing artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Acrylic painting of a pair of mallards in flight by Jim Hautman, 2015 Xanthus Lane, Plymouth, Minnesota 55447. As a two-time winner, Jim has developed into one of the most dynamic and talented wildlife artists today. His dedication to field research is evident in the high degree of detail he achieves in his work. Jim's brother, Bob Hautman, placed second in the same contest. Joe Hautman, Jim's older brother, was the winning artist for the 1992- 1993 Stamp. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Jim comes from an artistic family of nine, including a sister, mother and two brothers who are also professional artists. His brothers Robert and Joseph have also won the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, in 1996 (RW59) and 1991 (RW59) respectively. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Caption: Group of Recording Artists; September 23, 1914; {29.420/171} (jpg). |  | Group of artists. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fortune : Bah! why do artists always represent Fortune as a woman? ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bust portraits of Stuart Davis, Max Spivak, Julia Homburger, Ralph Pearson, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Louis Lozowick at the American Artists Congress. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Inauguration ball at Washington, March 4, 1861 - superb costumes of distinguished ladies present on that brillant occassion / from sketches by our special artists. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Trapeze artists at the Rutland Fair, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coal miners and their families all turn out for carnival, once a year. Granville, West Virginia. They are watching the aerial trapeze artists. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | West Potomac Park. Artists in Potomac Park I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Haydon | The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. |
EugFne Delacroix | Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. |
Guillaume Apollinaire | Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. |
J. G. Holland | Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathers his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world. |
Oscar Wilde | Bad artists always admire each other's work. |
| No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Artists must be sacrificed to their art. |
| The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. | |
W.s. Maverick | The musician, the painter, the poet, are, in a larger sense, no greater artists than the man of commerce. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Like all great artists, Thenardier was not satisfied. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Artists and industrial workers may experience headaches after exposure to materials that contain chemical solvents. (references) | |
Business | The party encouraged artists, writers, and journalists to adopt more critical approaches, although open attacks on party authority were not permitted. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Although the charges were related to a 10-year-old USSR Union of Artists application, Babajanov decided to leave the country. (references) |
Korea | The regime issues exit visas for foreign travel only to officials and trusted artists, athletes, academics, and religious figures. (references) | |
Vietnam | Many artists received permission to exhibit their works abroad, receiving exit permits to attend the exhibits and export permits to send their works out of the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | Artists Edvard Munch and Christian Krogh were Ibsen's contemporaries. (references) |
Syria | Later Syrian scholars and artists contributed to Hellenistic and Roman thought and culture. (references) | |
Peru | A subsequent reaction among Peruvian artists led to the beginning of modern Peruvian painting. (references) | |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | This requires foreign artists featured in these events to give stage time to national performers. (references) |
CANADA | The United States has a levy for cds but not blank tapes, therefore, U.S. artists do not benefit from Canada's regime. (references) | |
BELGIUM | This is the case for the United States, which does not grant protection of neighboring rights to Belgian artists and performers, nor to Belgian producers of records and movies. (references) | |
Travel | Senegal | Most reported incidents involve pickpockets, purse-snatchers and street scam artists. (references) |
Kenya | Thieves and con artists have been known to impersonate hotel employees, police officers or government officials. (references) | |
Mexico | Do not walk alone at night, and do not get involved in conversations with strangers, a favorite tactic of con artists and thieves. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Slovenia | Many women trafficked into the country are promised work as waitresses or artists in nightclubs. (references) |
Morocco | The law does not specifically prohibit trafficking in persons; under the Penal Code perpetrators are prosecuted either as scam artists, corrupters of minors, or persons who force others into prostitution. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Elton John | God, female artists. There's so many of them. India Arie has been nominated for a lot of Grammies. And she's from Georgia, too. And I think she's brilliant. |
Paul McCartney | Well, I mean we were kids who had looked at America as, you know, they're a great country, like a lot of the world does, you know, and you're British kids. Elvis Presley, you know, was from here or Motown, all the black artists that we loved from here. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The dominion of man over physical nature has been extended by the invention of our artists. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Federal support for the arts has been enhanced during my Administration by expanding government funding and services to arts institutions, individual artists, scholars, and teachers through the National Endowment for the Arts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ARTISTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "ARTISTS" is used about 4,045 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.95% | 4,043 | 2,435 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,045 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | American Artists Entertainment Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ARTISTS": artists-in-residence. | |
Ending with "ARTISTS": Black-women-artists, co-artists, con-artists, folk-artists, footballer-artists, piss-artists, sack-artists, state-artists, street-artists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
artists.htm brianmusic.com recommended | 4 |
artist artists.aspx f4 pinoycentral.com tone | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ARTISTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | man henvender fornoeden opmaerksomhed paa afholdelsen af internationale ungdomsarrangementer og udveksling af unge kunstnere (paying due attention to the organization of international cultural youth events and the exchange of young artists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | behoorlijke aandacht bestedend aan de organisatie van internationale culturele jeugdevenenementen en de uitwisseling van jonge kunstenaars (paying due attention to the organization of international cultural youth events and the exchange of young artists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tenant dûment compte de l'organisation de manifestations culturelles internationales de la jeunesse et de l'échange de jeunes artistes (paying due attention to the organization of international cultural youth events and the exchange of young artists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Artisten, Künstler (artist, artiste, genius, longhair, performer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | művésztelep (nursery for artists, nursery of artists), művésziskola (nursery for artists, nursery of artists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | quattrocentista (artist, author, longhair, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 文人墨客 (writers and artists), コマ割り (comic book, comic books, comic market, comic opera, comical, comics, commission, commissioner, commit, commuter, commuter marriage, commuter service, convention where amateur manga artists sell their work, panel layout), ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶ"じ"ぼっかく (writers and artists), コミケット (comic market, convention where amateur manga artists sell their work), ギャラ (fee paid to performing artists, guarantee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artistsay artifice (artist, longhair). (various references) artister. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ARTISTS": chartists, nonartists. (additional references) | |
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"ARTISTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apristas, arist, aritst, arrhizus, artics, artict, artista, Artisti, artmist, autist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ARTISTS" (pronounced Ä"rtusts, Ä"rtuss , or Ä"rtus) |
| 5 | -t u s t s | baptists, clarinetists, cultists, dentists, elitists, leftists, orthodontists, rightists, scientists, separatists. |
| 4 | -u s t s | abolitionists, abortionists, activists, agonists, agronomists, analysts, anarchists, anesthesiologists, animists, antagonists, anthropologists, apologists, aquarists, archaeologists, archivists, arsonists, atheists, ballasts, balloonists, behaviorists, bicyclists, biologists, botanists, breakfasts, capitalists, cardiologists, cartoonists, catalysts, centralists, colonialists, colonists, columnists, communists, conformists, conservationists, criminologists, cyclists, dermatologists, druggists, ecologists, economists, editorialists, endocrinologists, entomologists, environmentalists, epidemiologists, ethicists, exhibitionists, extremists, fascists, fatalists, federalists, feminists, fetishists, finalists, florists, forests, fundamentalists, generalists, geneticists, geologists, guitarists, gynecologists, harvests, herbalists, hobbyists, humanists, hygienists, idealists, ideologists, illusionists, imperialists, impressionists, individualists, industrialists, institutionalists, instrumentalists, interests, internationalists, internists, interventionists, isolationists, journalists, kremlinologists, linguists, lobbyists, locusts, loyalists, lyricists, machinists, medalists, meteorologists, militarists, modernists, moralists, motorcyclists, motorists, nationalists, naturalists, neurologists, nihilists, nonconformists, novelists, nutritionists, obstructionists, oncologists, ophthalmologists, opportunists, orthopedists, pacifists, paleontologists, panelists, pathologists, pharmacists, philanthropists, pianists, populists, preservationists, propagandists, protagonists, protectionists, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, purists, racists, radiologists, rainforests, rapists, realists, receptionists, reservationists, reservists, revolutionists, satirists, secessionists, secularists, segregationists, seismologists, semifinalists, socialists, sociologists, specialists, spiritualists, strategists, supremacists, survivalists, symbolists, technologists, televangelists, theorists, therapists, toxicologists, traditionalists, ultranationalists, urologists, violinists, virologists. |
| 3 | -s t s | adjusts, armrests, arrests, assists, attests, bassists, beasts, bequests, blasts, boasts, boosts, breasts, broadcasts, bursts, busts, careerists, castes, casts, centrists, chartists, chemists, chests, chloroplasts, coasts, cohosts, conquests, consists, consumerists, contests, contexts, contrasts, costs, crests, crusts, cysts, digests, disgusts, distrusts, divests, dusts, enlists, enthusiasts, evangelists, exhausts, exists, fasts, feasts, firsts, fists, flavorists, forecasts, frosts, futurists, ghosts, guests, guideposts, gusts, gymnasts, harpists, headrests, hoists, hosts, humorists, infests, insists, invests, jests, joists, jurists, lambastes, lampposts, lasts, lists, manifests, masts, mists, molests, monarchists, monetarists, nests, newscasts, numismatists, optimists, optometrists, outbursts, outcasts, outposts, pastes, pasts, persists, pessimists, pests, physicists, poltergeists, posts, pragmatists, preexists, priests, protests, provosts, publicists, quests, recidivists, reformists, Reinvests, requests, resists, rests, retests, revisionists, ripostes, roasts, rusts, schists, signposts, soloists, statists, sternposts, stylists, suffragists, suggests, tastes, telecasts, terrorists, testes, tests, texts, thrusts, toasts, toothpastes, tourists, trusts, twists, typists, unionists, vests, waists, wastes, wrists, yeasts. |
| 4 | -r t u s | tortoise. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, status, Stratus, treatise, ubiquitous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: straits, tsarist. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: artist, sistra, sitars, stairs, starts, strait, strati, traits. | |
-2 letters: airts, arsis, astir, saris, satis, sitar, stair, stars, start, stats, stirs, stria, tarsi, tarts, trait, trass, tsars. | |
-3 letters: airs, airt, aits, arts, rats, rias, sari, sati, sirs, sits, sris, star, stat, stir, tars, tart, tass, tats, tits, tsar. | |
-4 letters: air, ais, ait, ars, art, ass. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: artistes, artsiest, astricts, misstart, satirist, sitarist, striates, transits, tsarists, turistas, tzarists. | |
+2 letters: abstricts, altruists, antirusts, chartists, distracts, gastritis, misstarts, mistreats, naturists, resistant, satirists, sestertia, sitarists, starriest, straights, straitens, straitest, strawiest, strontias, teratisms, tessitura, traitress, transmits, trashiest, treatises, tristezas, tsaritzas, ultraists, votarists. | |
+3 letters: abstrusity, antistress, artistries, auteurists, brattiness, dissertate, distraints, dramatists, estimators, guitarists, hesitaters, karateists, kickstarts, misstarted, nonartists, patristics, prostatism, protistans, reinstates, resistants, restraints, ritualists, rusticates, separatist, shirttails, shirtwaist, starchiest, starfruits, starlights, stationers, statuaries, sterilants, stirabouts, straitness, strategies, strategist, stratifies, streakiest, streamiest, striations, striptease, swarthiest, sweatshirt, tanistries, tapestries, tarantisms, tearstains, tessituras, therapists, tracksuits, traitoress, transients, transistor, trapezists, travesties. | |
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