stylist

CEFRB2

/ˈstaɪlɪst/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who designs or advises on appearance and style.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A hairdresser.

Examples

  • Rima asked Skura to be her stylist for her wedding day.

  • Tom thanked his hair stylist and stunt double when accepting his Academy Award.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.

  2. A designer.

  3. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.

More examples

In context

  • She's a hair stylist.

  • If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?

  • 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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Origin

noun

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.