painters
USPAYN-turz/ˈpeɪntɚz/UKPAYN-tuhz/ˈpeɪntəz/
- 1Plural of painter.
The gallery featured works by three local painters.
Skilled painters can match almost any color you bring them.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries every sense of its singular at once. Most often it means artists, or tradespeople who paint walls and woodwork. On the water, painters are the ropes tied to a dinghy's bow for mooring or towing, and in Southern US speech they can be mountain lions. Context decides: painters coiled in the boat are not painters at the easel.
painters is a form of painter
painter, noun: An artist who paints pictures. Full entry
- Forms
- painterpainters plural
- Spelling
- painter → painters: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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