"finalist" meaning in English

See finalist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-finalist.wav [Southern-England] Forms: finalists [plural]
Etymology: final + -ist Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|final|ist}} final + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} finalist (plural finalists)
  1. Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition.
    Sense id: en-finalist-en-noun-2DBXZysb
  2. A university student in their final year of study.
    Sense id: en-finalist-en-noun-F07XgQ3C
  3. A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study).
    Sense id: en-finalist-en-noun-p-6IKfm4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 3 75 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 20 6 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: quarter-finalist, semi-finalist Related terms: short list, shortlisted Translations (participant in final): finalista [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), finalista [masculine] (Czech), finalistka [feminine] (Czech), finalist [masculine] (Dutch), finaliste [feminine] (Dutch), finaliste [masculine] (French), ფინალისტი (pinalisṭi) (Georgian), Finalist [masculine] (German), Finalistin [feminine] (German), פַיְנָלִיסְט (faynelíst) [masculine] (Hebrew), döntős (Hungarian), iomaitheoir ceannchluiche [masculine] (Irish), finalista [feminine, masculine] (Italian), فینالیست (finâlist) (Persian), finalista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), finalist [masculine] (Romanian), фина̀лист [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), finàlist [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), finalista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), finalist [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'participant in final': 32 37 32

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for finalist meaning in English (4.6kB)

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