Meanings
plural ceramicists · alternative ceramist
- A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.
Otto Natzler, a ceramicist best known for inventing glazes resembling geologic textures and colors that he applied to forms created by his wife Gertrud in a famous collaboration of more than three decades, died on April 7 in Los Angeles.
2007 April 23, Roja Heydarpour, “Otto Natzler, 99, a Ceramicist Celebrated for His Inventive Glazes”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 20221 more example
While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.
2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan ceramista
- ceramistaperson who makes ceramics
Esperanto ceramikisto
- ceramikistoperson who makes ceramics
Finnish keraamikko
- keraamikkoperson who makes ceramics
German Keramiker, Keramikerin
- Keramikerperson who makes ceramics
- Keramikerinperson who makes ceramics
Korean 요업가
- 요업가 (yoeopga)person who makes ceramics
Welsh seramegydd
- seramegyddperson who makes ceramics
Cite this entry
ceramicist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ceramicist
“ceramicist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ceramicist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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