ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Animatrix

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Animatrix is a noun meaning (rare) A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life).

Meaning

(rare) A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life).

More Meanings

  1. (rare) A female animator (one who creates an animation or cartoon).

Example Sentences

Marie Antoinette, animatrix of the Petit Trianon, had a special fancy for the cotton toiles de Jouy, introduced into France in the 1770s, for chinoiserie or pastoral scenes in the style of Boucher.
With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix.
She is a prose writer and essayist, a professor of complit & polisci at the University of Cluj, a cultural animatrix, a historian of violence and the gulag, and, to propose this (pilgr)image to the factotum, a formidable poet who said things no one else had the guts or flair to say in Romanian lit.
She conspired with Colorlab to unveil the rediscovery, which revealed a perfect continuity between the eleven-year-old’s use of film and the hand visible in her mature body of work: an animatrix with a childlike sense of joy and fun, a maker and pixilator of handmade objects, an animalier whose creatures could be monstrous as well as endearing.

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Related dictionary entries include janitrix, danseuse, donatrix, anonette, alphette, feminine.

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