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medalist

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for medalist.

Editorial note

By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Someone who has received a medal.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of medalist gathered in one view.

noun

Someone who has received a medal.

noun

An engraver, designer or maker of medals.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for medalist.

Example sentences

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By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.

2

Now to balance things out there we will need an Olympic medalist in track and field, or swimming.

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I'll take blogspam with a Fields Medalist in its comments over non-blogspam with no comments.

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Andrew Wiles was too old to win it, and Erdös is not a Field medalist (although not sure if that's because of age or oversight).

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You'd be hard-pressed to name an Olympic event with a gold medalist over 40, or in the team events, a gold medal team averaging over 40.

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Care to tell me what are the other practical avenues for people to immigrate to US if they are not a noble laureate or an olympic gold medalist?

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Now we have the cousin of a field medalist, nothing less!

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I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive.

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I think the most important thing what you can extract from the case of the Field's medalist is that he seems to enjoy what he does.

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So along with some of my friends, we created Medalist – a website builder for athletes that makes it easy to create a beautiful website in 5 minutes (for free).

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A world cup run involves many races around the world, wherein each skiier earns points for each race and the points are added up in the end of the year to determine the gold medalist.

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> Care to tell me what are the other practical avenues for people to immigrate to US if they are not a noble laureate or an olympic gold medalist?

Quote examples

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Timothy Gowers - 1998 Fields medalist - gave a lecture in 2000 titled "The Importance of Mathematics".

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It's "Fields medalist", not "Field's medalist".

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My favorite part is from Ed Witten, a leading theoretical physicist, and also a Fields’ Medalist, who replied: “There isn’t a clear task.

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If you see "someone faster than someone else", then if those 'someones' are a gold medalist vs an amateur - sure, genetics have little to do with it; but if those 'someones' are a gold medalist and 4th place...

Proper noun examples

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I don't believe in a proof done by a computer, says Pierre Deligne of the Institute for Advanced Study, an algebraic geometer and 1978 Fields Medalist.

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I'm a Team USA athlete & the co-founder of Medalist.

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However, the overwhelming example from public discourse suggests this is not a common skill shared by most of what society considers the emotionally mature: * Olympic Swimmer, Bronze Medalist, Rebecca Adlington.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use medalist in a sentence?

By the way, the author is William Thurston, a renowned mathematician and Fields medalist.

What does medalist mean?

Someone who has received a medal.

What part of speech is medalist?

medalist is commonly used as noun.