cimabue

1. 1.

   painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)

   SynonymsGiovanni Cimabue

   Broaderold master

Other forms of cimabue

plural

cimabues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cimabue

What does cimabue mean?

cimabue means "painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)".

How many syllables are in cimabue?

cimabue has 3 syllables: ci-ma-bue. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for cimabue?

Close synonyms include Giovanni Cimabue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cimabue a common word?

cimabue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.