ceramist

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/səˈɹamɪst/

noun

A person who makes ceramics objects; a potter.

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nounceramist (plural ceramists)

plural ceramists · alternative ceramicist

  1. A person who makes ceramics objects; a potter.

    The Corfu, Greece-born, London-based ceramist Agalis Manessi, 69, creates her animals — recumbent hounds, alert hares — from lumps of terra-cotta clay that she squeezes and manipulates “until a figure emerges.”

    2021 August 19, Nancy Hass, “The Ceramists Crafting Miniature Menageries”, in The New York Times Style Magazine
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    Wilson is part of a group of female ceramists from all over the globe who are meditating on the beauty of imperfection, age and artlessness, borrowing ideas from the past, including the Zen Buddhist philosophy of wabi-sabi.

    2017 December 5, Alexa Brazilian, “The Beautifully Flawed Work of Emerging Ceramists”, in The New York Times Style Magazine

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln

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APA

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

Chicago

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