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correctionist

correctionist noun: one who corrects something.

Noun

correctionist (plural correctionists)

  1. One who corrects something.
    • The correction of barbaralalia (foreign accent) is in the strictest sense speech re-education, since the speech correctionist is aiding the foreign speaker to change one set of speech habits for another.1941, Charlotte G. Wells, The Correction of Foreign Accent, page 34

Forms of correctionist

pluralcorrectionists

Origin of correctionist

From correction + -ist.

Questions about correctionist

What does correctionist mean?
Correctionist means one who corrects something.
What part of speech is correctionist?
Correctionist is a noun.
What is the plural of correctionist?
The plural of correctionist is correctionists.

Words near correctionist in the dictionary

  1. correctional officer
  2. correctional officers
  3. correctionally
  4. correctioner
  5. correctioners
  6. correctionist
  7. correctionists
  8. correctionless
  9. corrections
  10. corrections center
  11. corrections centers

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