stylist

English

Etymology

From style +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪlɪst/

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.
   • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books‎^[1]:

     If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?

4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
   • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:

     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.

Derived terms

• hair stylist
• food stylist

Related terms

• stylistics

Translations

designer — see designer

hairdresser — see hairdresser

a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style

• German: Stilist (de) m, Stilistin (de) f
• Romanian: stilist (ro) m, stilistă (ro) f
• Russian: стили́ст (ru) m (stilíst), стили́стка (ru) f (stilístka)
• Spanish: estilista m or f
• Swedish: stilist (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} styliste (fr)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} şêwaznas (ku), ^{(please verify)} stîlnas, ^{(please verify)} stîlîst (ku)

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} stìlist (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} stìlistica f

Further reading

• “stylist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “stylist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• stajlist

Noun

stylist c

1. a stylist

Declension

Declension of stylist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	stylist	stylists
	definite	stylisten	stylistens
plural	indefinite	stylister	stylisters
	definite	stylisterna	stylisternas

References

• stylist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)