hairdresser
hairdresser noun: a person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.
Noun
hairdresser (plural hairdressers)
- A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.
- Near-synonyms: barber; beautician, aesthetician, esthetician
- Synonyms:
- friseur, hairstylist, barber, beautician, aesthetician, esthetician
hairdresser meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
hairdresser in Hindi
- professional for haircutting or hairstyling
- नाई nāī, मुंड muṇḍ
hairdresser in Urdu
- professional for haircutting or hairstyling
- حَجّام hajjām, مُو تَراش mū tarāś, نَائی nāī
hairdresser in Bengali
- professional for haircutting or hairstyling
- নরসুন্দর norśundor
hairdresser in Malayalam
- hairstylist, stylist, coiffeur
- കേശപ്രസാധകൻ, കേശാലങ്കാരം നടത്തുന്നവൻ, കേശസംവിധായകൻ, മുടി വെട്ടുന്നവൻ, മുടി വെട്ടുന്നവൾ, കേശപ്രസാധക
More languagesFewer languages
- hairdresser in Kannada
- ಕೂದಲಣಿಗ
- hairdresser in Gujarati
- વાળંદ vāḷṃda
- hairdresser in Pashto
- آرایشګر ārāyešgár, دلاک dalãk, سلماني salmāní, ډم ḍǝm
- hairdresser in Tagalog
- tagapagkulot
- hairdresser in Arabic
- مُزَيِّن muzayyin, كْوَافِير kwafīr
- hairdresser in Indonesian
- penata rambut
- hairdresser in Thai
- ช่างแต่งผม châang-dtɛ̀ɛng-pǒm
- hairdresser in Vietnamese
- thợ cắt tóc
Examples of hairdresser in a sentence
- I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.
- I asked the hairdresser not to overcurl my hair like last time.
- Another day, the magic wind came and switcherooed Katie into a hairdresser named Sparkle.
Synonyms of hairdresser
Forms of hairdresser
| plural | hairdressers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hair dresser |
| alternative form | hair-dresser |
Origin of hairdresser
From hair + dress + -er.
Questions about hairdresser
- What does hairdresser mean?
- Hairdresser means a person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.
- What is hairdresser in Hindi?
- Hairdresser in Hindi is नाई (nāī), मुंड (muṇḍ). See Hairdresser meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hairdresser?
- Hairdresser is a noun.
- What is the plural of hairdresser?
- The plural of hairdresser is hairdressers.
Words near hairdresser in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hairdresser (page history and authors); hairdresser (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hairdresser (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વાળંદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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