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designer

[ dih-zahy-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.
  2. a schemer, intriguer, or plotter.


adjective

  1. designed or created by or carrying a label or identification of a designer, especially a fashion designer, but often mass-produced:

    designer jeans.

  2. created for intentional effect through chemical or genetic modification, as for a designer drug, or through crossbreeding, as for a designer dog.

designer

/ ɪˈɪə /

noun

  1. a person who devises and executes designs, as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc
  2. modifier designed by and bearing the label or signature of a well-known fashion designer

    designer jeans

  3. modifier (of things, ideas, etc) having an appearance of fashionable trendiness

    designer pop songs

    designer stubble

  4. modifier (of cells, chemicals, etc) designed (or produced) to perform a specific function or combat a specific problem

    designer insecticide

  5. modifier (of an animal) cross-bred for a specific purpose, such as looks, temperament, or likelihood of causing an allergy

    designer dogs

  6. a person who devises plots or schemes; intriguer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of designer1

First recorded in 1640–50; design + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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Costume designer Celeste Jennings illustrates their differences through clothing choices that reflect Sade’s more marginalized status and Mina’s more assimilated reality.

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Authorities arrested two men in connection with the theft of a designer handbag belonging to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Queer fashion designer Drew Arvizu, 25, has attended all but two of Simon Says’ events in the last year.

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In California, the cuts will begin next month and affect 240 employees, including engineers, designers and writers, according to a notice sent to the state’s Employment Development Department.

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Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion “doom buggies” and more, isn’t slowing down.

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