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

  • noun One who has received a medal.
  • noun Sports The winner at medal play in a golf tournament.
  • noun One who designs, makes, or collects medals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An engraver, stamper, or molder of medals.
  • noun One who is skilled in medals.
  • noun One who has gained a medal as a reward of merit.

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

  • noun A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.
  • noun A designer of medals.
  • noun One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.

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

  • noun One who has received a medal; one who has medalled.
  • noun An engraver, designer or collector of medals.

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

  • noun someone who has won a medal
  • noun (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament

Etymologies

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From medal "award" + -ist

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