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metallist

metallist noun: a person who works with metals.

Noun

metallist (plural metallists)

  1. A person who works with metals.
  2. An advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency.
    • No economist, with the possible exception of the most doctrinaire metallists, have ever expressed any other opinion. --American Economic Review (1938) 28, p. 316
    • While not all Jacksonians were Metallists, or vice versa, the Jacksonian Metallists sought to purge the currency of small bank notes and replace them with gold and silver coins. --Exploring Economic History (1974) 11, p. 228
  3. A metaller: a fan of the metal music genre.

Forms of metallist

pluralmetallists

Origin of metallist

From metal + -ist.

Questions about metallist

What does metallist mean?
Metallist means a person who works with metals.
What part of speech is metallist?
Metallist is a noun.
What is the plural of metallist?
The plural of metallist is metallists.

Words near metallist in the dictionary

  1. metallise
  2. metallised
  3. metallises
  4. metallising
  5. metallism
  6. metallist
  7. metallists
  8. metallizable
  9. metallization
  10. metallizations
  11. metallize

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