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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
  2. n. One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
  3. n. A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
  4. n. An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought: anarchist.
  5. n. One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality: romanticist.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Added to words to form nouns denoting:

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in

Etymologies

  1. From Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (istēs). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English -iste, from Old French, from Latin -istēs, -ista, from Greek -istēs, agent n. suff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. correligionist
  1. AST
  1. collectivist
  1. ism
  1. istic
  1. curist
  1. Ister

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Words tagged ‘-ist’

  1. Averroist
  2. Girondist
  3. Latinist
  4. Mithraist
  5. Ockhamist
  6. Yorkist
  7. activist
  8. adaptationist
  9. aerialist
  10. agonist
  11. alchemist
  12. alienist
  13. allegorist
  14. allopathist
  15. amourist
  16. anarchist
  17. anglomanist
  18. antagonist
  19. anthologist
  20. anti-collectivist
  21. anti-fascist
  22. anti-individualist
  23. anti-racist
  24. antimesmerist
  25. arctophilist
  26. arsonist
  27. ascentionist
  28. balloonist
  29. baptist
  30. basophilist
  31. bassist
  32. behaviorist
  33. bematist
  34. bilinguist
  35. bioethicist
  36. biologist
  37. brandophilist
  38. bullionist
  39. calligraphist
  40. carcinologist
  41. cartoonist
  42. catechist
  43. centrist
  44. cerebralist
  45. cerographist
  46. chordophonist
  47. classicist
  48. clavecinist
  49. colloquist
  50. colonialist
  51. colonizationist
  52. columnist
  53. communist
  54. completist
  55. conclavist
  56. conformist
  57. conjecturalist
  58. consumerist
  1. conventionalist
  2. copoclephilist
  3. copyist
  4. cosmogonist
  5. craniologist
  6. crayonist
  7. creationist
  8. credobaptist
  9. cruciverbalist
  10. crustaceologist
  11. crustalogist
  12. cryptogamist
  13. cryptologist
  14. cubist
  15. cueist
  16. cyberneticist
  17. cynophilist
  18. cytologist
  19. darwinist
  20. defeatist
  21. demonologist
  22. dermatologist
  23. determinist
  24. dialist
  25. diarist
  26. dichotomist
  27. dispensationalist
  28. doggerelist
  29. dominionist
  30. dramatist
  31. duelist
  32. dynamicist
  33. dynamist
  34. ecologist
  35. economist
  36. egoist
  37. egotist
  38. egyptologist
  39. electropaleophysiologist
  40. electrophysiologist
  41. encyclopaedist
  42. encyclopedist
  43. endocrinologist
  44. environmentalist
  45. epigrammatizer
  46. eternalist
  47. euphuist
  48. extremist
  49. factionist
  50. falsettist
  51. fashionist
  52. fatalist
  53. feminist
  54. fetishist
  55. fictionist
  56. fideist
  57. flavorist
  58. folklorist
  1. funambulist
  2. gallerist
  3. gassendist
  4. generativist
  5. geodesist
  6. geologist
  7. globalist
  8. graphologist
  9. guitarist
  10. hacktivist
  11. hairstylist
  12. harpsichordist
  13. hautboyist
  14. herbalist
  15. heterogenist
  16. hippotomist
  17. hobbyist
  18. horologist
  19. humorist
  20. hyperbolist
  21. hypnotist
  22. iconodulist
  23. iconophilist
  24. illusionist
  25. immoralist
  26. imperialist
  27. impressionist
  28. inclusionist
  29. indifferentist
  30. institutionalist
  31. intellectualist
  32. islamicist
  33. ist!
  34. leftist
  35. legalist
  36. legist
  37. liberalist
  38. linguist
  39. literalist
  40. liturgist
  41. lobbyist
  42. loyalist
  43. luminist
  44. lutenist
  45. lyricist
  46. malacologist
  47. malacostracologist
  48. malist
  49. mannerist
  50. maoist
  51. materialist
  52. mentalist
  53. metallurgist
  54. microscopist
  55. millennialist
  56. minimalist
  57. misogamist
  58. monist
  1. moralist
  2. nationalist
  3. nativist
  4. naturalist
  5. nemophilist
  6. neologist
  7. neurologist
  8. nonconformist
  9. novelist
  10. numerologist
  11. occultist
  12. ocularist
  13. oculist
  14. oenophilist
  15. oligarchist
  16. oologist
  17. optimist
  18. originalist
  19. otorhinolaryngologist
  20. pacifist
  21. paedobaptist
  22. paleomycologist
  23. panegyrist
  24. panelist
  25. panspermist
  26. pantheist
  27. parodist
  28. particularist
  29. perfectionist
  30. petaurist
  31. petrologist
  32. phagologist
  33. pharmacist
  34. philanthropinist
  35. philanthropist
  36. phillumenist
  37. philologist
  38. philotheist
  39. phlebotomist
  40. physicist
  41. plenist
  42. pointillist
  43. polyamorist
  44. polypharmacist
  45. populist
  46. positivist
  47. pragmatist
  48. precisionist
  49. propagandist
  50. prosodist
  51. protagonist
  52. psalmodist
  53. pulmonologist
  54. putschist
  55. querist
  56. racist
  57. rapist
  58. redemptorist
  1. reformist
  2. reincarnationist
  3. revanchist
  4. revisionist
  5. revivalist
  6. rhinologist
  7. ruralist
  8. satanist
  9. saturnist
  10. scenographist
  11. scientist
  12. seclusionist
  13. sexist
  14. sexualist
  15. sitarist
  16. socialist
  17. solecist
  18. solipsist
  19. solist
  20. soloist
  21. somnambulist
  22. specialist
  23. spectroscopist
  24. statist
  25. stegophilist
  26. substantivalist
  27. supremacist
  28. surrealist
  29. survivalist
  30. symbolist
  31. symbologist
  32. synergist
  33. syphilologist
  34. tantrist
  35. taoist
  36. telephonist
  37. telescopist
  38. temporalist
  39. tetragonist
  40. theologist
  41. theosophist
  42. therapeutist
  43. tobacconist
  44. totemist
  45. traditionalist
  46. typist
  47. utopianist
  48. vacuist
  49. vanguardist
  50. vexillologist
  51. vibraphonist
  52. violinist
  53. virologist
  54. vocalist
  55. voluntaryist
  56. vulcanist
  57. welfarist
  58. witticist
  1. womanist
  2. xylopolist

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