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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A contestant in a competition's final session.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Sports) Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition

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final +‎ -ist

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