interior designer
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3.3
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɪriər dɪˈzaɪnər/
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diseñador de interiores
- She hired an interior designer to help choose colors and furniture for her new apartment.
I said, or Bri, we could search and find the top five interior designers in America.
- I said, or Bri, we could search and find the top five interior designers in America.
- All of their staff are both architects and interior designers so they have both degrees under their belt which I think is incredible.
- If you guys want to see more home makeover decorating videos, I'm sure maybe having the interior designers on my channel will kind of help.
- I accepted that I am not a fucking interior designer, but I don't want the place to look as sad as those early apartments.
- But I guess he's going to be, you know, the little interior designer.
- And so I was like, cool, so you now are the, the interior designer is now your avatar.
- Again, the architecture as an interior designer, when I'm not doing this, this architecture is what we call nouveau riche.
- I did not have an interior designer yet at that time, so I took on the role of the main contractor, Metrodo, in French, which is quite a bit.
Examples
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Gilberto's mother works as an interior designer out of her home, which enables her to help her children when they need it.
Academic text (2005) -
I thought about hiring an interior designer, but I really wasn't sure that was the way to go.
Blog text (9) -
You could pick an interior designer that you absolutely love.
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All right, now she wants to know some interior designers.
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I meet this woman, and she turns out to be an interior designer.
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I am an interior designer.
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There are no shortcuts to becoming an interior designer, especially not a good one.
Blog text (7) -
Trump's vision is shared by his wife, Ivana, a former fashion model turned interior designer.
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"I'm not a lawyer," says Andrews, an interior designer from Delray Beach.
Academic text (1997) -
I am a semi-retired interior designer who loves to sew, craft, paint, and decorate.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who plans and decorates the inside of buildings
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3.7
A person who plans and decorates the inside of buildings
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3.4
A person who plans and chooses the colors, furniture, and fabrics for the inside of a home or office
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3.4
A person who changes the look of rooms or buildings
A person who plans and arranges a home's rooms and furniture
A person who arranges furniture, colours, and things to make rooms look nice and work well
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who plans and decorates the inside spaces of buildings' is directly and compositionally derived from 'interior' (inside/inner) + 'designer' (one who designs). This adjective + noun combination follows a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Interior designer is a compound of the words interior meaning 'inside' and designer meaning 'someone who plans how things look'. Imagine a person moving furniture, choosing colors and lights and arranging a room so it works well and looks nice; that's why it means 'a person whose job is to plan and decorate the inside spaces of buildings'.