noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person who works in metal (the type of material). dated
2. 2
   an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals wordnet
3. 3
   A person skilled in metallurgy.

Synonyms

All synonyms

engineermetallurgical engineermetalworker

Example

More examples

"She is a metallurgist and has a husband. He is also a metallurgist but at the competing company."

Etymology

From metallurgy + -ist.

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