timist

English

Alternative forms
  • timeist

Etymology

time +‎ -ist

Noun

timist (plural timists)

  1. (obsolete, music) A performer who keeps good time.
  2. (obsolete) A timeserver.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for timist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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