housepainter

noun

house·​paint·​er ˈhau̇s-ˌpān-tər How to pronounce housepainter (audio)
: one whose business or occupation is painting houses

Examples of housepainter in a Sentence

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John is a housepainter John works as a housepainter and spent 13 years building the Elordi family’s house himself. Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023 Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role. Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022 His brother, a professional housepainter, will change the color of a big wooden cube periodically. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022 Eventually, Jones became a housepainter to support and raise his grandchildren. Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2021 Fischbacher was born in Rosenheim, Germany, in 1939 to a homemaker mother and a housepainter father. Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021 His father was a housepainter, a still somewhat profitable trade in a city where aging clapboard buildings were common. Ian Volner, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020 Gary Simons, the son of a housepainter and a homemaker, had just been hired as a teacher at P.S. 140, an elementary school in the Bronx, his home borough. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020 The drummer and housepainter skates to his own beat. BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1688, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of housepainter was in 1688

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“Housepainter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housepainter. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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