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Tweet 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 -istēs, -ista, from Greek -istēs, agent n. suff.] |
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