medalist

English

Alternative forms
Four Olympic medalists

Etymology

From medal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛdəlɪst/

Noun

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French médailliste.

Noun

medalist m (plural medaliști)

  1. medalist

Declension
Declension of medalist
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) medalist medalistul (niște) medaliști medaliștii
genitive/dative (unui) medalist medalistului (unor) medaliști medaliștilor
vocative medalistule medaliștilor
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