printmaker

«printmaker» in Mova's school dictionary: An artist who makes pictures by printing, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a printmaker, printmakers)

meaning for a pupil

An artist who makes pictures by printing, such as woodcuts, lino prints, etchings or screen prints. tree →

sense in the lessons

An art word: in art lessons children are printmakers when they make lino or polystyrene prints, using ink and rollers. Famous printmakers include Albrecht Dürer and Katsushika Hokusai (The Great Wave).

examples

• Hokusai was a famous Japanese printmaker. tree →
• The printmaker carved a design into the wood. tree →
• Today we are printmakers, using polystyrene tiles. tree →
• A printmaker can make many copies of one picture. tree →
• The printmaker rolled ink onto the lino. tree →
• We visited a printmaker's studio. tree →

note

Countable; one word. Related: printmaking (uncountable), print (noun and verb).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «printmaker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.