| -ist suff. 1. a. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist. b. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist. 2. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist. 3. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist. 4. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist. [Middle English -iste, from Old French, from Latin -ist  s, -ista, from Greek -ists, agent n. suff.] |
-ist
suffix
1. (forming nouns) a person who performs a certain action or is concerned with something specified motorist soloist
2. (forming nouns) a person who practises in a specific field physicist typist
3. (forming nouns and adjectives) a person who advocates a particular doctrine, system, etc., or relating to such a person or the doctrine advocated socialist
4. (forming nouns and adjectives) a person characterized by a specified trait, tendency, etc., or relating to such a person or trait purist
5. (forming nouns and adjectives) a person who is prejudiced on the basis specified sexist ageist
[via Old French from Latin -ista, -istēs, from Greek -istēs]
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