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analyst

noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈænəlɪst/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: annalist
  • CMU ARPABET: AE1 N AH0 L IH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Someone who analyzes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Someone who is an analytical thinker.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A mathematician who studies real analysis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A systems analyst.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A practitioner of psychoanalysis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A financial analyst; a business analyst.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

noun

Meaning 7

a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: psychoanalyst

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink

Narrower terms: Freud, Sigmund Freud, Klein, Melanie Klein, Reich, Wilhelm Reich

8

noun

Meaning 8

someone who is skilled at analyzing data

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: expert

Narrower terms: assayer, intelligence analyst, systems analyst

9

noun

Meaning 9

an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: expert

Narrower terms: credit analyst, financial analyst, securities analyst, industry analyst, market analyst

History

Etymology

From French analyste.

Across languages

Translations

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: analist — person who analyses
  • Amharic: ተንታኝ (täntañ) — person who analyses
  • Arabic: مُحَلِّل (muḥallil) — person who analyses
  • Arabic: مُتَخَصِّص (mutaḵaṣṣiṣ) — person who analyses
  • Armenian: վերլուծաբան (verlucaban) — person who analyses
  • Azerbaijani: analitik — person who analyses
  • Azerbaijani: təhlilçi — person who analyses
  • Belarusian: аналі́тык (analítyk) — person who analyses
  • Bengali: বিশ্লেষক (bisleśok) — person who analyses
  • Bulgarian: аналити́к (analitík) — person who analyses
  • Bulgarian: аналити́чка (analitíčka) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Cantonese: 分析家 (fan1 sik1 gaa1) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Cantonese: 分析者 (fan1 sik1 ze2) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Cantonese: 分析師 /分析师 (fan1 sik1 si1) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Cantonese: 分析員 /分析员 (fan1 sik1 jyun4) — person who analyses
  • Chinese: 分析家 (hun-sek-ka) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分析家 (fēnxījiā) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分析者 (fēnxīzhě) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分析師 /分析师 (fēnxīshī) — person who analyses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分析員 /分析员 (fēnxīyuán) — person who analyses
  • Czech: analytik — person who analyses
  • Czech: analytička — person who analyses
  • Danish: analytiker — person who analyses
  • Dutch: analist — person who analyses
  • Dutch: analiste — person who analyses
  • Esperanto: analizisto — person who analyses
  • Estonian: analüütik — person who analyses
  • Finnish: analyytikko — person who analyses
  • French: analyste — person who analyses
  • Georgian: ანალიტიკოსი (analiṭiḳosi) — person who analyses
  • German: Analytiker — person who analyses
  • German: Analytikerin — person who analyses
  • Greek: αναλυτής (analytís) — person who analyses
  • Greek: αναλύτρια (analýtria) — person who analyses
  • Hebrew: מְנַתֵּחַ (m'natéakh) — person who analyses
  • Hindi: विश्लेषक (viśleṣak) — person who analyses
  • Hungarian: elemző — person who analyses
  • Indonesian: analis — person who analyses
  • Irish: anailísí — person who analyses
  • Italian: analista — person who analyses
  • Japanese: アナリスト (anarisuto) — person who analyses
  • Japanese: 分析家 (bunsekika) — person who analyses
  • Japanese: 分析者 (bunsekisha) — person who analyses
  • Kazakh: аналитик (analitik) — person who analyses
  • Kazakh: талдаушы (taldauşy) — person who analyses
  • Khmer: អ្នកវិភាគ (nĕək viphiək) — person who analyses
  • Korean: 분석자 (bunseokja) — person who analyses
  • Korean: 애널리스트 (aeneolliseuteu) — person who analyses
  • Northern Kurdish: analîst — person who analyses
  • Kyrgyz: аналитик (analitik) — person who analyses
  • Kyrgyz: талдоочу (taldoocu) — person who analyses
  • Lao: ນັກວິເຄາະ (nak wi khǫ) — person who analyses
  • Latvian: analītiķis — person who analyses
  • Lithuanian: analitikas — person who analyses
  • Macedonian: аналитичар (analitičar) — person who analyses
  • Macedonian: аналитичарка (analitičarka) — person who analyses
  • Malay: penganalisis — person who analyses
  • Manx: bun-ronseyder — person who analyses
  • Māori: kaitātari — person who analyses
  • Mongolian: шинжээч (šinžeeč) — person who analyses
  • Norwegian Bokmål: analytiker — person who analyses
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: analytikar — person who analyses
  • Iranian Persian: تَحْلیلْگَر (tahlilgar) — person who analyses
  • Polish: analityk — person who analyses
  • Polish: analityczka — person who analyses
  • Portuguese: analista — person who analyses
  • Romanian: analist — person who analyses
  • Romanian: analistă — person who analyses
  • Russian: анали́тик (analítik) — person who analyses
  • Scottish Gaelic: mion-sgrùdair — person who analyses
  • Serbo-Croatian: аналѝтича̄р — person who analyses
  • Serbo-Croatian: аналитичарка — person who analyses
  • Serbo-Croatian: analìtičār — person who analyses
  • Serbo-Croatian: analitičarka — person who analyses
  • Slovak: analytik — person who analyses
  • Slovak: analytička — person who analyses
  • Slovene: analitik — person who analyses
  • Slovene: analitičarka — person who analyses
  • Spanish: analista — person who analyses
  • Swedish: analytiker — person who analyses
  • Tajik: аналитик (analitik) — person who analyses
  • Tajik: таҳлилкунанда (tahlilkunanda) — person who analyses
  • Tajik: таҳлилгар (tahlilgar) — person who analyses
  • Tatar: аналитик (analitik) — person who analyses
  • Telugu: విశ్లేషకుడు (viślēṣakuḍu) — person who analyses
  • Thai: นักวิเคราะห์ (nák-wí-krɔ́) — person who analyses
  • Turkish: analist — person who analyses
  • Turkmen: analitik — person who analyses
  • Ukrainian: аналі́тик (analítyk) — person who analyses
  • Ukrainian: аналі́тичка (analítyčka) — person who analyses
  • Urdu: تَجْزِیَہ کار (tajziya kār) — person who analyses
  • Uyghur: تەھلىلچى (tehlilchi) — person who analyses
  • Uzbek: analitik — person who analyses
  • Vietnamese: người phân tích — person who analyses
  • Welsh: dadansoddwr — person who analyses
  • Bulgarian: психоаналитик (psihoanalitik) — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Bulgarian: психоаналитичка (psihoanalitička) — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Danish: psykoanalytiker — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Dutch: psycho-analist — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Dutch: psycho-analiste — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Esperanto: psikanalizisto — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Finnish: psykoanalyytikko — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • French: analyste — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • French: psychanalyste — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Hindi: मनोविश्लेषक (manoviśleṣak) — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Hungarian: pszichoanalitikus — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Irish: síocanailísí — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Italian: analista — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Italian: psicanalista — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Japanese: 精神分析学者 (seishinbunsekigakusha) — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Polish: psychoanalityk — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Portuguese: psicanalista — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Romanian: psihanalist — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Romanian: psihanalistă — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Russian: психиа́тр (psixiátr) — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Serbo-Croatian: психоаналѝтича̄р — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Serbo-Croatian: psihoanalìtičār — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Spanish: psicoanalista — psychoanalysis practitioner
  • Bulgarian: анализатор (analizator) — financial or business analyst
  • Finnish: analyytikko — financial or business analyst
  • French: analyste — financial or business analyst
  • Greek: αναλυτής (analytís) — financial or business analyst
  • Greek: αναλύτρια (analýtria) — financial or business analyst
  • Hungarian: elemző — financial or business analyst
  • Irish: anailísí — financial or business analyst
  • Portuguese: analista — financial or business analyst
  • Romanian: analist — financial or business analyst
  • Romanian: analistă — financial or business analyst
  • Russian: анали́тик (analítik) — financial or business analyst
  • Serbo-Croatian: аналѝтича̄р — financial or business analyst
  • Serbo-Croatian: analìtičār — financial or business analyst
  • Spanish: analista — financial or business analyst
Real reading context

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