LIMNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limner mean? 

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

1. a painter or drawer of portraits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A painter or drawer of portraits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

limner; portrait painter; portraitist; portrayer

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

painter (an artist who paints)

Derivation:

limn (make a portrait of)

 Context examples 

The unfortunate limner had been sitting up rubbing himself ruefully and staring about with a vacant gaze, which showed that he knew neither where he was nor what had occurred to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The luckless limner, thus suddenly brought out from his dreams, sat up with a piercing yell, while Hordle John bounded back into the circle almost as rapidly as he had left it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That is Wat the limner,” quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)