"typist" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtaɪpɪst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-typist.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-typist.wav Forms: typists [plural]
Etymology: From type + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|type|ist}} type + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} typist (plural typists)
  1. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter. Wikipedia link: typist Categories (topical): Occupations, People Derived forms: audio-typist, copy typist, shorthand typist, touch-typist Related terms: clerk, data entry, stenographer Translations (person who types): 打字員 /打字员 (dǎzìyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), maskinskriver [common-gender] (Danish), maskinskriverske [common-gender, feminine] (Danish), typist [masculine] (Dutch), typiste [feminine] (Dutch), tajpisto (Esperanto), tajpistino [feminine] (Esperanto), konekirjoittaja (Finnish), dactylo [feminine, masculine] (French), dactylographe [feminine, masculine] (French), Maschinenschreiber [masculine] (German), Maschinschreiber [Austrian, masculine] (German), Schreibkraft [feminine] (German), Maschinenschreiberin [feminine] (German), Maschinschreiberin [Austrian, feminine] (German), Tippse [colloquial, feminine] (German), Schreibdame [feminine] (German), Tippfräulein [colloquial, neuter, obsolete, possibly] (German), Tippmädchen [colloquial, neuter, obsolete] (German), Tippmamsell [feminine, obsolete] (German), Dactylo [Swiss, feminine, obsolete] (German), Schreibmaschinist [masculine] (German), Schreibmaschinistin [feminine] (German), δακτυλογράφος (daktylográfos) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), ટંકલેખક (ṭaṅklekhak) (Gujarati), gépíró (Hungarian), gépírónő (Hungarian), mašinistka (Ingrian), clóscríobhaí [masculine] (Irish), dattilografo [masculine] (Italian), dattilografa [feminine] (Italian), タイピスト (taipisuto) (Japanese), 타이피스트 (taipiseuteu) (Korean), 타자수 (tajasu) (alt: 打字手) (Korean), дактилогра́ф (daktilográf) [masculine] (Macedonian), дактилогра́фка (daktilográfka) [feminine] (Macedonian), kaipatopato (Maori), maskinskriver [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), maskinskriverske [feminine] (Norwegian Bokmål), maskinskrivar [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), maszynistka [feminine] (Polish), dactilógrafo [masculine] (Portuguese), datilógrafo [masculine] (Portuguese), dactilograf [masculine] (Romanian), dactilografă [feminine] (Romanian), машини́стка (mašinístka) [feminine] (Russian), clò-sgrìobhaiche [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), дактилограф [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), дактилографкиња [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), daktilograf [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), daktilografkinja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mecanógrafo [masculine] (Spanish), mecanógrafa [feminine] (Spanish), dactilógrafo [masculine] (Spanish), dactilógrafa [feminine] (Spanish), taipista [US, common-gender] (Spanish), tipiador [masculine] (Spanish), maskinskrivare [common-gender] (Swedish), maskinskriverska [common-gender, feminine] (Swedish), skrivmaskinist [common-gender] (Swedish), daktilograf (Turkish), klavan (Volapük), hiklavan [masculine] (Volapük), jiklavan [feminine] (Volapük), teipydd [masculine] (Welsh), teipyddes [feminine] (Welsh)

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          "word": "ટંકલેખક"
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          "sense": "person who types",
          "word": "gépíró"
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          "sense": "person who types",
          "word": "gépírónő"
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          "sense": "person who types",
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          ],
          "word": "maskinskrivare"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "maskinskriverska"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "word": "daktilograf"
        },
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          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "word": "klavan"
        },
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          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "jiklavan"
        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "person who types",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "teipyddes"
        }
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        "typist"
      ]
    }
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}
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    {
      "word": "audio-typist"
    },
    {
      "word": "copy typist"
    },
    {
      "word": "shorthand typist"
    },
    {
      "word": "touch-typist"
    }
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    }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "clerk"
    },
    {
      "word": "data entry"
    },
    {
      "word": "stenographer"
    }
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ist",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Gujarati translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ingrian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Volapük translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:People"
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          "ref": "1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:",
          "text": "During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...",
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        }
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        [
          "clerical",
          "clerical"
        ],
        [
          "worker",
          "worker"
        ],
        [
          "write",
          "write"
        ],
        [
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          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "typewriter",
          "typewriter"
        ]
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        "typist"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dǎzìyuán",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "打字員 /打字员"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskriver"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskriverske"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "typist"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "typiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "tajpisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tajpistino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "konekirjoittaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dactylo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dactylographe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Maschinenschreiber"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Austrian",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Maschinschreiber"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibkraft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Maschinenschreiberin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Austrian",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Maschinschreiberin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Tippse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibdame"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "neuter",
        "obsolete",
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "Tippfräulein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "neuter",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Tippmädchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Tippmamsell"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Swiss",
        "feminine",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Dactylo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibmaschinist"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibmaschinistin"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "daktylográfos",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "δακτυλογράφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "ṭaṅklekhak",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "ટંકલેખક"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "gépíró"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "gépírónő"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "mašinistka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clóscríobhaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dattilografo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dattilografa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "taipisuto",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "タイピスト"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "taipiseuteu",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "타이피스트"
    },
    {
      "alt": "打字手",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tajasu",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "타자수"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "daktilográf",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дактилогра́ф"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "daktilográfka",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дактилогра́фка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "kaipatopato"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskriver"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskriverske"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskrivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maszynistka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dactilógrafo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "datilógrafo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dactilograf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dactilografă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mašinístka",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "машини́стка"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clò-sgrìobhaiche"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дактилограф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дактилографкиња"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "daktilograf"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "daktilografkinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mecanógrafo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mecanógrafa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dactilógrafo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dactilógrafa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "taipista"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tipiador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskrivare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maskinskriverska"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skrivmaskinist"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "daktilograf"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "word": "klavan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hiklavan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jiklavan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teipydd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "person who types",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teipyddes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "typist"
}

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