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pyrotechnist en · NOUN

Etymology

From pyrotechnic + -ist, from pyro- + technic.

Meanings

1. (dated) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
   • That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, […] 1862, The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America:
2. (figuratively) One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.
   • "It is thus the pyrotechnist (should we say demiurge?) who gives meaning to the so to speak explosive effervescences that are weaving the world of the spectator" 2006, Michel Weber, Nicholas Rescher, Whitehead's Pancreativism:

Forms

Translations (17)

uk піротехнік (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · de Pyrotechniker (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · ro pirotehniciană (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · tg мутахассиси оташбозӣ (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · tg тарфгар (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · it artificiere (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · ro pirotehnician (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · es pirotécnico (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · pt pirotécnica (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · it pirotecnico (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · pt pirotécnico (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · vo filotavan (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · fr artificier (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · vo jifilotavan (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · ota فشنكجی (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · ru пироте́хник (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks) · vo hifilotavan (person skilled in manufacture or setting fireworks)