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medalist

/ˈmɛdəlɪst/

medalist noun: an engraver, designer or maker of medals.

medalist: an engraver, designer or maker of medals
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Noun

medalist (plural medalists)

  1. (US) An engraver, designer or maker of medals.
    • [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court.2008, William McCarthy, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Johns Hopkins, page 134
  2. (US) Someone who has received a medal.
    • Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.

medalist meaning in Bengali

medalist in Bengali

পদকপ্রাপ্ত ব্যক্তি

Forms of medalist

pluralmedalists
alternative formmedallist

Plural of medalist: medalists

Origin of medalist

From medal + -ist.

Words formed from medalist

Questions about medalist

What does medalist mean?
Medalist means an engraver, designer or maker of medals.
What is medalist in Bengali?
Medalist in Bengali is পদকপ্রাপ্ত ব্যক্তি. See Medalist meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is medalist?
Medalist is a noun.
How do you pronounce medalist?
Medalist is pronounced /ˈmɛdəlɪst/.
What is the plural of medalist?
The plural of medalist is medalists.

Words near medalist in the dictionary

  1. medal tables
  2. medaled
  3. medalet
  4. medalets
  5. medaling
  6. medalist
  7. medalists
  8. medalled
  9. medalless
  10. medallic
  11. medallically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medalist (page history and authors); medalist (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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