COSMETICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmetician mean? 

• COSMETICIAN (noun)
  The noun COSMETICIAN has 2 senses:

1. someone who sells or applies cosmetics

2. someone who works in a beauty parlor

  Familiarity information: COSMETICIAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSMETICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who sells or applies cosmetics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cosmetician" is a kind of...):

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who works in a beauty parlor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beautician; cosmetician

Hypernyms ("cosmetician" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmetician"):

manicurist (a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails)