HAIRDRESSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairdresser mean? 

• HAIRDRESSER (noun)
  The noun HAIRDRESSER has 1 sense:

1. someone who cuts or beautifies hair

  Familiarity information: HAIRDRESSER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRDRESSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who cuts or beautifies hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hairdresser; hairstylist; styler; stylist

Hypernyms ("hairdresser" 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 "hairdresser"):

barber (a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade)

coiffeur (a man hairdresser)

coiffeuse (a woman hairdresser)

tinter (a hairdresser who tints hair)

 Context examples 

No hairdresser from London I think could.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

George was then in his forty-first year, and with the help of his tailor and his hairdresser, he might have passed as somewhat less.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She did take off the papers, but no cloud of ringlets appeared, for the hair came with the papers, and the horrified hairdresser laid a row of little scorched bundles on the bureau before her victim.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)