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# printmaker

«printmaker» in Mova's school dictionary: **An artist who makes pictures by printing, such as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a printmaker, printmakers)

### meaning for a pupil

An artist who makes pictures by printing, such as woodcuts, lino prints, etchings or screen prints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

An art word: in art lessons children are printmakers when they make lino or polystyrene prints, using ink and rollers. Famous printmakers include Albrecht Dürer and Katsushika Hokusai (The Great Wave).

### examples

- Hokusai was a famous Japanese printmaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x1)
- The printmaker carved a design into the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x2)
- Today we are printmakers, using polystyrene tiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x3)
- A printmaker can make many copies of one picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x4)
- The printmaker rolled ink onto the lino. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x5)
- We visited a printmaker's studio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. Related: printmaking (uncountable), print (noun and verb).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «printmaker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printmaker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.