ceramicist

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noun

A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounceramicist (plural ceramicists)

plural ceramicists · alternative ceramist

  1. 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 2022
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    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
APA

ceramicist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ceramicist

MLA

“ceramicist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ceramicist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ceramicist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ceramicist.

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