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typist

Syllables: typ·ist/ˈtaɪpɪst/

typist noun: a person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.

Noun

typist (plural typists)

  1. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
    • During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131

typist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

typist in Hindi

typist, typer
टंकक ṭaṅkak

typist in Tamil

தட்டெழுத்தர், தட்டச்சர்

typist in Malayalam

ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യുന്നയാൾ

typist in Kannada

ಬೆರಳಚ್ಚುಗಾರ, ಟೈಪಿಗ
More languagesFewer languages
typist in Gujarati
ટંકલેખક ṭaṅklekhak

Examples of typist in a sentence

  • I gave up my job as a typist owing to repetitive strain injury.
  • Smith was a dyed-in-the-wool typist and never really got used to writing on computers.
  • Joe oversaw a team of one hundred cryppies, translators, typists, punch card operators, and clerks.

All 17 example sentences with typist

Forms of typist

pluraltypists

Plural of typist: typists

Origin of typist

From type + -ist.

Words formed from typist

Phrases with typist

Questions about typist

What does typist mean?
Typist means a person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
What is typist in Hindi?
Typist in Hindi is टंकक (ṭaṅkak). See Typist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is typist?
Typist is a noun.
How do you pronounce typist?
Typist is pronounced /ˈtaɪpɪst/.
What is the plural of typist?
The plural of typist is typists.

Words near typist in the dictionary

  1. typing paper
  2. typing pool
  3. typing pools
  4. typing up
  5. typings
  6. typist
  7. typiste
  8. typistes
  9. typists
  10. typo
  11. typo'd

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: typist (page history and authors); टंकक (Hindi) (page history and authors); typist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); typist (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); typist (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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