sign painter
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3.7
- noun
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pintor de letreros
- More than a hundred sign painters work in the various neighborhoods of Kinshasa, each hoping for recognition.
- sign painter at work
Examples
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The sign painter carefully created a bright advertisement for the local bakery.
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The sign painter screwed up the sign.
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When he arrived, a sign painter was in the process of removing Rabalais's name from the door.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ghanaian sign painters are quick to respond to current events when advertising themselves.
Academic text (2004) -
He had been trained as a sign painter at the mission school, as the diploma told, but on the coast, there were no signs to paint.
Fiction book (1990) -
Looking at its frosted-glass door, the sign painter is just finishing lettering in: NORVILLE BARNES, President.
Fiction book (1994) -
There's a correlation here of the canvas and the hand-lettered sign—a correlation between what Sloan is doing and what a sign painter does.
Academic text (2011) -
When the restaurant opened, the sign painter installed a beautiful new sign above the entrance.
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The sign painter mixed colors expertly to match the shop's branding on the storefront sign.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who puts colour on walls, furniture, or buildings as a job
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7.3
A person who writes or paints words on signs and art
A person who paints and designs signs for shops and public places
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who paints signs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sign' (a board displaying information) with 'painter' (someone who applies paint). This is a regular noun–noun compound/agentive construction common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sign painter comes from the simple picture of a person who paints shop signs by hand. A sign is the shop notice and a painter is someone who paints, so the name came to mean 'a person whose job is to paint signs and billboards by hand'.