de kooning

1. 1.

   United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)

   SynonymsWillem de Kooning

   Broaderpainter

Questions about de kooning

What does de kooning mean?

de kooning means "United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)".

What is another word for de kooning?

Close synonyms include Willem de Kooning. 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 de kooning a common word?

de kooning 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.