medalist

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English

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Four Olympic medalists

Etymology

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From medal +‎ -ist.

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Noun

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medalist (plural medalists) (American spelling)

  1. An engraver, designer or maker of medals. [from 17th c.]
    • 2008, William McCarthy, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Johns Hopkins, page 134:
      [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court.
  2. Someone who has received a medal. [from 18th c.]
    Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French médailliste.

Noun

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medalist m (plural medaliști)

  1. medalist

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