medalist

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English

Alternative forms

Four Olympic medalists

Etymology

From medal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

Noun

medalist (plural medalists) (American spelling)

  1. An engraver, designer or maker of medals.
    • 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.
    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

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