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stylist

/ˈstaɪlɪst/

stylist noun: a designer.

stylist: a group of people sitting in a room with a large mirror
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Noun

stylist (plural stylists)

  1. A designer.
  2. A hairdresser.
  3. A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
    • If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
  4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
    • A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196

stylist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

stylist in Hindi

स्टाइलिस्ट, शैलीकार

stylist in Tamil

தகுநய நடையாளர், பகட்டிக்கொள்ளுகிற, புதுநடைப் பாணியுடைய, கவர்ச்சித் தோற்றமுடைய, எழிலாக்குநர்

stylist in Marathi

शैलीकार, स्टायलिस्ट

stylist in Urdu

صاحب طرز
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stylist in Bengali
শৈলীকার, রূপসজ্জাকর
stylist in Malayalam
സ്റ്റൈലിസ്റ്റ്
stylist in Kannada
ವಿನ್ಯಾಸಕಾರ, ಸ್ವಂತಶೈಲಿ ಹೊಂದಿರುವವ
stylist in Punjabi
ਸਟਾਈਲਿਸਟ, ਸਟਾਈਲੀਸਟ
stylist in Gujarati
સ્ટાઇલિસ્ટ, સ્ટાઈલીસ્ટ, શૈલીકાર
stylist in Odia
ଷ୍ଟାଇଲିଷ୍ଟ୍, ଷ୍ଟାଇଲିଷ୍ଟ, ଷ୍ଟାଇଲିସ୍ଟ
stylist in Nepali
स्टाइलिस्ट, शैलीकार

Examples of stylist in a sentence

  • Many stylists become trichologists due to their years of experience working with normal and abnormal hair conditions.
  • Streep, one of the few actresses who refuses to hire a stylist, was in on the joke.
  • "A stylist kept trying to tell me to wear heels," she says.

All 16 example sentences with stylist

Forms of stylist

pluralstylists

Plural of stylist: stylists

Origin of stylist

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

Words formed from stylist

Questions about stylist

What does stylist mean?
Stylist means a designer.
What is stylist in Hindi?
Stylist in Hindi is स्टाइलिस्ट, शैलीकार. See Stylist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is stylist?
Stylist is a noun.
How do you pronounce stylist?
Stylist is pronounced /ˈstaɪlɪst/.
What is the plural of stylist?
The plural of stylist is stylists.

Words near stylist in the dictionary

  1. stylishly
  2. stylishness
  3. stylising
  4. stylism
  5. stylisms
  6. stylist
  7. stylista
  8. stylistas
  9. stylistic
  10. stylistical
  11. stylistically

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stylist (page history and authors); stylist (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stylist (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stylist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stylist (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stylist (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stylist (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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