IST Definition

ist, əst
abbreviation
Insulin shock therapy.
American Heritage Medicine
suffix
One that performs a specified action.
Lobbyist.
American Heritage
One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing.
Novelist.
American Heritage
A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill.
Biologist.
American Heritage
An adherent or advocate of a specified doctrine, theory, or school of thought.
Anarchist.
American Heritage
One that is characterized by a specified trait or quality.
Romanticist.
American Heritage
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A person who does, makes, or practices (the thing specified): many words so formed correspond to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism.

Moralist, satirist.
Webster's New World
A person skilled in or occupied with; an expert in.
Druggist, violinist.
Webster's New World
An adherent of or believer in.
Anarchist.
Webster's New World
A person having or displaying prejudice related to.
Ageist.
Webster's New World

Forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -ism or -ist.

Darwinist, escapist, ageist.
Webster's New World

Origin of IST

  • Middle English -iste from Old French from Latin -istēs, -ista from Greek -istēs agent n. suff

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French -iste and Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής (istēs).

    From Wiktionary

  • ME -iste < OFr < L -ista < Gr -istēs < verbs ending in -izein

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

IST Sentence Examples

  • He died on the 2 ist of May 1639.

  • That night the divisions in line were relieved, the ist Canadian Div.

  • Certain of these may even date from the end of the ist century, and the larger part of them are probably not later than the middle of the 2nd.

  • The right wing of the 19th was still holding on Globocak and had been reinforced by the ist Bersaglieri Brigade; Alpine troops still held a line down to the river, though they had been driven off their original positions on Krad Vrh, and troops of the 64th were being brought back from the left bank to strengthen this line.

  • Wollen ist Ursein (will is primal being); and to this alone apply the predicates fathomless, eternal, independent of time, self-affirming."

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Words Starting With

IISIST

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TSTIST

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Words Starting With I and Ending With T

Starts With I & Ends With TStarts With IS & Ends With TStarts With I & Ends With ST

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With I3 Letter Words Ending With T