stylist

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stylist

  • /ˈstaɪlɪst/

Where it comes from

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

noun 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. 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. 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hairstylist, hairdresser, haircut, barbershop, barber, hair, architect, designer, design, styler, set designer, stylizer, fashion designer, styliser, hairstyler, couturier

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noun a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style

Españolestilista
DeutschStilist, Stilistin
Românăstilist, stilistă
Русскийстили́ст stilíst, стили́стка stilístka

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@misc{stylist_2026,
  title = {stylist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stylist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}