Pre-Raphaelite

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(prē raf′ē ə līt′, -rā′fē-)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Pre-Raph•a•el•ite  (prē raf′ē ə līt′, -rā′fē-),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Fine Art, Literatureany of a group of English artists (Pre-Raph′aelite Broth′erhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.

adj. 
  1. Literature, Fine Artof, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites.
  • pre- + Raphael + -ite1 1840–50
Pre-Raph′a•el•it′ism, n. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Pre-Raphaelite / ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt/
  1. a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais, founded in 1848 to combat the shallow conventionalism of academic painting and revive the fidelity to nature and the vivid realistic colour that they considered typical of Italian painting before Raphael
  1. of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters
ˌPre-ˈRaphaelˌitism
'Pre-Raphaelite' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Brown - Burne-Jones - Hunt - PRB

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