CARICATURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caricaturist mean? 

• CARICATURIST (noun)
  The noun CARICATURIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner

  Familiarity information: CARICATURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARICATURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("caricaturist" is a kind of...):

lampooner; parodist (mimics literary or musical style for comic effect)

Instance hyponyms:

Beerbohm; Max Beerbohm; Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm (English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956))

Derivation:

caricature (a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect)

 Context examples 

Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)