noun
Meaning 1
A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
philatelist
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/fɪˈlætəlɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
a collector and student of postage stamps
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stamp collector
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: collector, aggregator
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English philately Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English philatelist From philately + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: філатэлі́ст (filatelíst) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Belarusian: філатэлі́стка (filatelístka) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Bulgarian: филателист (filatelist) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Carpathian Rusyn: філателі́ста (filatelísta) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Catalan: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Chinese Mandarin: 集郵家 /集邮家 (jíyóujiā) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Czech: sběratel — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Czech: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Danish: frimærkesamler — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Danish: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Dutch: postzegelverzamelaar — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Dutch: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Estonian: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Estonian: margikoguja — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Finnish: filatelisti — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Finnish: postimerkkeilijä — a person who studies or collects stamps
- French: philatéliste — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Galician: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- German: Philatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- German: Philatelistin — a person who studies or collects stamps
- German: Briefmarkensammler — a person who studies or collects stamps
- German: Briefmarkensammlerin — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Greek: φιλοτελιστής (filotelistís) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Greek: φιλοτελίστρια (filotelístria) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Greenlandic: fritidsklubi — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Hebrew: אספן בולים (asfán bulím) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Hungarian: bélyeggyűjtő — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Hungarian: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Icelandic: frímerkjasafnari — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Italian: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Japanese: 切手収集家 (kitte shūshūka) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Norwegian Bokmål: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Norwegian Bokmål: frimerkesamler — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Norwegian Nynorsk: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Norwegian Nynorsk: frimerkesamlar — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Polish: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Polish: filatelistka — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Portuguese: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Russian: филатели́ст (filatɛlíst) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Russian: филатели́стка (filatɛlístka) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Slovak: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Spanish: filatelista — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Spanish: filatélico — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Swedish: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Swedish: frimärkssamlare — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Turkish: filatelist — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Turkish: pulcu — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Ukrainian: філателі́ст (filatelíst) — a person who studies or collects stamps
- Ukrainian: філателі́стка (filatelístka) — a person who studies or collects stamps
Real reading context