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philatelist

/fɪˈlætəlɪst/

philatelist noun: a person who collects and studies postage stamps.

Noun

philatelist (plural philatelists)

  1. A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
    • M. Laruelle, who had been born in Languion, in the Moselle country, but whose father, a rich philatelist of remote habits, had moved to Paris, usually spent his summer holidays as a boy with his parents in Normandy.1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock
    Synonyms:
    stamp collector

philatelist meaning in Kannada

philatelist in Kannada

ಬೆಟ್ಟು ನೆರಪುಗ

Synonyms of philatelist

Forms of philatelist

pluralphilatelists

Origin of philatelist

From philately + -ist.

Words formed from philatelist

Questions about philatelist

What does philatelist mean?
Philatelist means a person who collects and studies postage stamps.
What is philatelist in Kannada?
Philatelist in Kannada is ಬೆಟ್ಟು ನೆರಪುಗ. See Philatelist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is philatelist?
Philatelist is a noun.
How do you pronounce philatelist?
Philatelist is pronounced /fɪˈlætəlɪst/.
What is the plural of philatelist?
The plural of philatelist is philatelists.

Words near philatelist in the dictionary

  1. philatelically
  2. philatelically inspired
  3. philatelics
  4. philatelies
  5. philatelism
  6. philatelist
  7. philatelistic
  8. philatelists
  9. philately
  10. Philathea
  11. Philathean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: philatelist (page history and authors); philatelist (Kannada 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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