stylist
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstaɪlɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
stylist (plural stylists)
- A designer.
- A hairdresser.
- A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
- 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books[1]:
- If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?
- 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.
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Translations
designer — see designer
hairdresser — see hairdresser
a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style
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Further reading
- “stylist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stylist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stylist.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: sty‧list
Noun
stylist m (plural stylisten)
Derived terms
Swedish
Alternative forms
Noun
stylist c
- a stylist
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | stylist | stylists |
| definite | stylisten | stylistens | |
| plural | indefinite | stylister | stylisters |
| definite | stylisterna | stylisternas |