Collocations for "painter"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "painter" in context.
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painter
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [light, landscape, portrait, caricature], Renaissance painter
- a [famous, master, starving, self-employed, freelance] painter
- a [15th] -century painter
- a [scenic, scenery] painter
- a painter and [decorator, plasterer]
- earn a [wage, living] as a painter
- [work, specialize, job] as a painter
- had the painters in [yesterday, last week]
- the painters came to redo the [walls, facade]
- is [studying, training] to become a painter
'painter' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Dutch
- abstract
- canvas
- commission
- conception
- contemporary
- distinction
- greatness
- inspired
- landscape
- masterpiece
- muse
- portrait
- portrayal
- self
- use