MANICURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manicurist mean? 

• MANICURIST (noun)
  The noun MANICURIST has 1 sense:

1. a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails

  Familiarity information: MANICURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANICURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("manicurist" is a kind of...):

beautician; cosmetician (someone who works in a beauty parlor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manicurist"):

parer (a manicurist who trims the fingernails)

Derivation:

manicure (professional care for the hands and fingernails)

manicure (care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.)

manicure (trim carefully and neatly)