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medallist

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for medallist.

Editorial note

And there are a hell of a lot more gifted kids than just the Olympiad gold medallist prodigies.

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Quick take

(UK) Alternative spelling of medalist. [An engraver, designer or maker of medals.]

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(UK) Alternative spelling of medalist. [An engraver, designer or maker of medals.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for medallist.

noun

(UK) Alternative spelling of medalist. [An engraver, designer or maker of medals.]

Example sentences

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And there are a hell of a lot more gifted kids than just the Olympiad gold medallist prodigies.

2

They even threw in a reference to a fields medallist on page 1 just to alert everyone that it was crankery.

3

He had been in the same class as someone who is now a Fields medallist.

4

Not to be rude, but saying this about a Fields medallist is somehow very funny.

5

Michelle Debruin, and Irish Olympic gold medallist in swimming, went on to become a Barrister, a trial lawyer in the American parlance.

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Laurent Schwartz (former fields medallist) states in his autobiography (which I do recommend) that he was particularly slow - however being slow doesn't mean you're bad.

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Olympic medallist Tony Jeffries made a video about this a couple of days ago[1].

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The fact that we have a f k g Fields medallist having to deal with overzealous mods makes me sad.

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Bronze medallist by the time the competition is near the end, usually compete just to get on podium, or they will feel a silver was lost instead of gold, but a podium was gained.

10

His tryout time for the marathon was only 11 minutes slower than British silver medallist Thomas Richards' Olympic race time of 2 hours 35 minutes.

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Hell, put a noble prize winner (or Olympic gold medallist, or astronaut, or you pick) in a room with a guy who made 50mm on property development.

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This might be biased by the fact that he is such a good communicator, he is more visible than other similarly good mathematicians, but he is a Fields medallist all the same.

Quote examples

1

I think you're equating "mathematician" with "Fields-medallist-adjacent"?

2

My probability lecturer (the Field's medallist Tim Gowers), when presenting the proof of Stirling's approximation, said something along the lines of "now, the normal method for proving this bit is a bit complicated, and on my cycle in this morning I thought 'There must be an easier way', when the following struck me.

3

That's all very well (and Goldberg's paper is excellent); but it has nothing whatever to do with the linked page, which is by Fields medallist Tim Gowers, arguing that in pure mathematics "infinite decimals" is as good a way to construct the real numbers as "Cauchy sequences" or "Dedekind cuts".

Proper noun examples

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Maynard is a Fields Medallist, so is also one of the strongest mathematicians around.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use medallist in a sentence?

And there are a hell of a lot more gifted kids than just the Olympiad gold medallist prodigies.

What does medallist mean?

(UK) Alternative spelling of medalist. [An engraver, designer or maker of medals.]

What part of speech is medallist?

medallist is commonly used as noun.