Idol vs Artist - What's the difference?
idol | artist |
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :
A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
A person who creates art.
A person who creates art as an occupation.
A person who is skilled at some activity.
(archaic) Artistic.
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As nouns the difference between idol and artist
is that idol is a graven or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power while artist is a person who creates art.As an adjective artist is
artistic.idol
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
Descendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* idolatry * idolise, idolizeAnagrams
* * * * * ----artist
English
Noun
Derived terms
* artistdom * artistic * artistically * artistry * con artist * escape artist * pickup artist * piss-artist * quick-change artistSee also
* animator * artisan * drawer * sculptorAdjective
(en adjective)- Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.