dartist

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noun

A skilled darts player.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

noundartist (plural dartists)

plural dartists

  1. A skilled darts player.

    Dartists stood grouped before the two boards in the public bar, the counter full of elbows, the tables crowded.

    1945, Henry Gibbs, Blue Days and Fair
    2 more examples

    So while a "bull" (as the dartists term a bull's-eye) is nice, it is as difficult to hit the narrow red or green strips circling the board and that have different point values.

    2003, Gerald Eskenazi, A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter

    He'd assumed that the Hollow Head's dartists would all come from the area around the pub, or at least from somewhere in the borough of Cowden.

    2003, Mat Coward, In and Out, page 31

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰerh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰórh₃-eh₂
  3. Proto-Germanic*darō
  4. Proto-Germanic*darōþuz
  5. Frankish*darōþ
  6. Medieval Latindardus
  7. Old Frenchdart
  8. Middle Englishdart
  9. Englishdart
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  12. Proto-Italic*artis
  13. Latinars
  14. Late Latinartista
  15. Frenchartiste
  16. Englishartist
  17. Englishdartist

Blend of dart + artist.

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APA

dartist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dartist

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“dartist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dartist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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