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photoist

photoist noun: a photographer.

Noun

photoist (plural photoists)

  1. (dated) A photographer.
    • We have become a nation of photoists almost as much as we are a nation of autoists and will be a nation of fliers.1943, Willard Detering Morgan, The Complete Photographer, volume 8, page 2768

Forms of photoist

pluralphotoists

Origin of photoist

From photo + -ist.

Questions about photoist

What does photoist mean?
Photoist means a photographer.
What part of speech is photoist?
Photoist is a noun.
What is the plural of photoist?
The plural of photoist is photoists.

Words near photoist in the dictionary

  1. photoisomerize
  2. photoisomerized
  3. photoisomerizes
  4. photoisomerizing
  5. photoisomers
  6. photoist
  7. photoists
  8. photojournal
  9. photojournalism
  10. photojournalist
  11. photojournalistic

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