stylist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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?

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who cuts or beautifies hair

4. 4
   noun

   an artist who is a master of a particular style

5. 5
   noun

   A designer.

6. 6
   noun

   A hairdresser.

Etymology

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.