medalist

English

Alternative forms

Four Olympic medalists

• medallist (UK)

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.

Derived terms

• bronze medalist
• gold medalist
• silver medalist

Translations

one who has received a medal

• Asturian: medayista m or f
• Azerbaijani: medalçı
• Catalan: medallista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獎章獲得者 / 奖章获得者 (jiǎngzhāng huòdézhě)

• Czech: medailista (cs) m
• Finnish: mitalisti (fi)
• French: médaillé (fr) m, médaillée (fr) f
• German: Medaillengewinner (de) m, Medaillengewinnerin (de) f
• Japanese: メダリスト (ja) (medarisuto)
• Korean: 메달리스트 (ko) (medalliseuteu)
• Polish: medalista (pl) m, medalistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: medalhista m or f
• Russian: медали́ст (ru) m (medalíst), медали́стка (ru) f (medalístka)
• Spanish: medallista (es) m or f
• Swedish: medaljör (sv) c
• Turkish: madalyalı (tr)

Anagrams

• Milstead, madliest, misdealt

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French médailliste.

Noun

medalist m (plural medaliști)

1. medalist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	medalist	medalistul		medaliști	medaliștii
genitive-dative	medalist	medalistului		medaliști	medaliștilor
vocative	medalistule			medaliștilor