ceramicist
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- noun
- /səˈræmɪsɪst/
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ceramista
- PHOTO (COLOR): Project ceramicist Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati examines vessels with volunteer archaeologist Mary Stancavage in the area of the palace where all the pieces were unearthed.
- painter and ceramicist
Examples
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Under ideal circumstances, the ceramicist knew the subject, was summoned to his or her deathbed, and was said to retrieve the person's face later by gazing into a pan of palm oil or water.
Academic text (1990) -
O'Bill might also have been touched by a ceramic statue of the Virgin Mary made and given to his wife by her friend Shirley Lochrie, an amateur ceramicist.
Academic text (2016) -
These were fired several months later by a ceramicist colleague who offered her expertise and her kiln.
Academic text (1997) -
"By a ceramicist.
Fiction book (1995) -
Do you mean Bernard Palissy, the 16th century Huguenot ceramicist?
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By taking and using clay, we make reference to ceramicists in our deep past, as well as to many southern African and international contemporaries who work with clay as their medium of choice.
Academic text (2007) -
Combining chemical with stylistic, iconographic, and hieroglyphic analysis, we can match the vases with archaeological regions, sites, and even specific workshops and master ceramicists.
Academic text (2003) -
Through extensive experimentation over the past three decades, the ceramicist Magdalene Odundo has perfected the use of a marl-rich terra sigillata to create her ceramics.
Academic text (2009) -
The talented ceramicist created a beautiful vase from clay and fired it in her kiln.
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After graduating from art school, she became a professional ceramicist and sells her pottery online.
Synonyms
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3.9
A person who shapes clay into pots and heats them to make them hard
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6.9
A person who makes pots and other things from clay and hardens them by heating
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8.2
A person who shapes clay on a spinning wheel to make pottery
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5.1
A person who shapes clay into pots and hardens them with heat
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ceramicist comes from ceramic, which comes from the Greek keramos meaning 'pottery' or 'clay', and the ending -ist means 'a person who does something'. So a ceramicist is someone who makes pots and other items from clay and fires them to become hard.