stylist

English

Etymology

From style +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstaɪlɪst/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

stylist (plural stylists)

  1. A designer.
  2. A 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.
    • 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?
  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

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Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English stylist.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: sty‧list

Noun

stylist m (plural stylisten)

  1. stylist

Derived terms

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

stylist c

  1. a stylist

Declension

Declension of stylist
nominative genitive
singular indefinite stylist stylists
definite stylisten stylistens
plural indefinite stylister stylisters
definite stylisterna stylisternas

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