Dictionary

stylist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈstaɪlɪst/

Etymology

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Deriveds

hairstylist · food stylist · hair stylist · polystylist

Relateds

stylistics

Translations (8)

es estilista (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · ro stilist (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · ru стили́стка (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · de Stilistin (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · de Stilist (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · ru стили́ст (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · sv stilist (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style) · ro stilistă (a writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style)