stylist

English

Etymology

From style +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstaɪlɪst/

Noun

stylist (plural stylists)

  1. Designer.
  2. Hairdresser.
  3. A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
  4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
    • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (page 196)
      A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Derived terms

Translations
designer — see designer
hairdresser — see hairdresser
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Further reading
  • stylist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • stylist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

stylist c

  1. a stylist

Declension
Declension of stylist 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stylist stylisten stylister stylisterna
Genitive stylists stylistens stylisters stylisternas

References
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