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Definition: Hairdresser |
HairdresserNoun1. Someone who cuts or beautifies hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hairdresser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Multilingual Slang | French (merlan). (references) |
Occupations | Specializes in dressing hair according to latest style, period, or character portrayal, following instructions of patron, MAKE-UP ARTIST (amuse. & rec.; motion picture; radio-tv broad.), or script: Questions patron or reads instructions of MAKE-UP ARTIST (amuse. & rec.; motion picture; radio-tv broad.) or script to determine hairdressing requirements. Studies facial features of patron or performing artist and arranges, shapes, and trims hair to achieve desired effect, using fingers, combs, barber scissors, hair-waving solutions, hairpins, and other accessories. Dyes, tints, bleaches, or curls or waves hair as required. May create new style especially for patron. May clean and style wigs. May style hairpieces and be designated Hairpiece Stylist (fabrication, nec). (references) |
| Dresses wigs and hair pieces according to instructions, samples, sketches, or photographs: Attaches wig or hair piece onto model head, using hammer and tacks or pins. Combs and sets hair, using barber and beautician equipment. Arranges hair according to instructions, pictures, or photographs, using brush and comb. Sprays hair with lacquer to keep hair in place. May cut wigs and hair pieces to specified length and style, using scissors or razor. May wash and dry hair pieces. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HairdresserSynonyms: hairstylist (n), styler (n), stylist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hairdresser |
| English words defined with "hairdresser": barber ♦ coiffeur, coiffeuse ♦ Friseur' ♦ tinter, tinting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hairdresser": Merlan. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'd like to be a hairdresser. Or two. I'd like to be two hairdressers. (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle) No, you can't come by herebecause I'm pretending to be gaybecause in L.A., a straight male hairdresser is an unemployed male hairdresser. (Deliver Us from Eva; writing credit: James Iver Mattson; B.E. Brauner) Do not burn the candle at both ends, as it leads to the life of a hairdresser. (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting) Come on now! Which one of you wouldn't rather listen to his hairdresser than Hercules? (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | An Impromptu Hairdresser (1900) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Business | Many professional beauty operators, including hairdresser shops, beauty and spa salons, use exclusively imported cosmetic products and equipment. (references) | |
In Moscow alone there are 1.5 thousand hairdresser shops, 500 of which are beauty salons, offering higher quality services and using well-known brand name products, such as Wella, Schwartzkopf, L'Oreal, Revlon, etc. There are about 500 hairdresser shops and beauty salons in Saint Petersburg, and approximately 150 in Novosibirsk. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Cameroon | On the night of January 19 and 20, a group of 10 female soldiers in military uniform and 2 men in civilian clothes kidnaped Hortense Toukam, a Douala-based hairdresser. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hairdresser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.76% of the time. "Hairdresser" is used about 411 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.76% | 410 | 13,752 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 411 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hairdresser": hairdresser salon ♦ ladies' hairdresser ♦ men's hairdresser. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hairdresser": ex-hairdresser. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hairdresser | 233 |
hairdresser tipping | 12 |
hairdresser training | 10 |
hairdresser much tip | 8 |
hairdresser supply | 6 |
hairdresser tip | 6 |
hairdresser school | 6 |
clipart hairdresser | 6 |
hairdresser sex | 5 |
hairdresser salon | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hairdresser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | kapster (female, female hairdresser), haarkapper (barber). (various references) | |
Albanian | floktar, berber (barber, coiffeur, shaver). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلا ق, المزين (coiffured), الحلاق لشعر النساء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фризьор (coiffeur). (various references) | |
Catalan | perruquera (female hairdresser), perruquer (barber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 美发师 (stylist). (various references) | |
Czech | holiè (barber), kadeřník (hair stylist, stylist). (various references) | |
Danish | frisør (barber). (various references) | |
Dutch | kapster (female hairdresser). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frizisto (barber), frizistino (female hairdresser). (various references) | |
Farsi | سلمانی برای مردوزن , ارایشگرمو. (various references) | |
Finnish | kampaaja (hair stylist). (various references) | |
French | coiffeuse (female hairdresser), coiffeur. (various references) | |
Frisian | hierknipper (barber). (various references) | |
German | Friseur (barber, coiffeur, haircutter, hair-dresser, stylist), Friseuse (dresser, stylist, woman hairdresser), Damenfriseur (ladies'hairdresser). (various references) | |
Greek | κομμώτρια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעצב שער. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fodrász (barber, coiffeur). (various references) | |
Irish | gruagaire. (various references) | |
Italian | parrucchiere (barber, hair dresser, haircutter, stylist), parrucchiera (female, female hairdresser, woman hairdresser). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 髪結い (hairdressing), 床山 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かみゆい (hairdressing), と"やま. (various references) | |
Korean | 미용사. (various references) | |
Manx | folteyr. (various references) | |
Norwegian | frisør (barber). (various references) | |
Papiamen | barbero (barber). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airdresserhay.(various references) | |
Polish | fryzjer (barber). (various references) | |
Portuguese | cabeleireiro (barber, coiffeur, hairdo, hairdryer), cabeleireira (female hairdresser). (various references) | |
Provencal | barbièra. (various references) | |
Romanian | frizer (barber). (various references) | |
Romansch | coiffeur. (various references) | |
Russian | парикмахер (barber, coiffeur). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | frizer (coiffeur). (various references) | |
Sicilian | parruccheri. (various references) | |
Spanish | peluquero (barber, coiffeur, haircutter), peluquera (female hairdresser). (various references) | |
Swedish | hårfrisörska (female hairdresser), frisör (barber, coiffeur, stylist). (various references) | |
Thai | ช่างทำผม. (various references) | |
Turkish | berber (barber, shaver). (various references) | |
Ukranian | перукар (barber, coiffeur, haircutter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hairdresser": hairdressers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hairdresser" (pronounced he"rdre'ser) |
| 3 | -e' s er | multiprocessor, predecessor, processor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-r-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: adherers, airsheds, derrises, desirers, drearier, drearies, dressier, harriers, radishes, reraised, reraises, residers, shearers, sherries. | |
-4 letters: adherer, adheres, airshed, arrises, dashers, dashier, dearies, deashes, derries, desirer, desires, disease, dresser, erasers, hardier, hardies, harried, harrier, harries, headers, headier, hearers, hearsed, hearses, heiress, herders, herried, herries, raiders, raisers, rashers, readers, readier, readies, rearers, redears, redress, redries, reheard, rehears, rehired, rehires, reraise, rereads, rerises, resedas, resider, resides, seaside, serried, serries, shaders, shadier, shairds, sharers, sheared, shearer, sherris, shirred, sierras, sirdars, sirrahs, sirrees. | |
-5 letters: adhere, aeried, aerier, aeries, aiders, airers, arider, arises, ashier, asides, daises, darers, dasher, dashes, dashis, dassie, deairs, dearer, dearie, derris, desire, dieses, dishes, drears, driers, easier, easies, eiders, erased, eraser, erases, haeres, haired, harder, header, hearer, hearse, heders, heired, herder, hiders, hirers, hissed, hisser, irades, radish, raider, raised, raiser, raises, rasers, rasher, rashes, reader, reared, rearer, redear, rediae, redias, rehear, rehire, reread, rerise, resaid, reseda, reshes, reside, resids, riders, risers, sadhes, sarees, sashed, seared, searer, seders, seised, seiser, serais, series, shader, shades, shaird, shards, shared, sharer, shares, shears, sheers, sherds, shiers, shires, shirrs, shreds, sierra, sirdar, sirees, sirrah, sirras, sirree. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: hairdressers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 69 72 64 72 65 73 73 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .. .-. -.. .-. . ... ... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 01100100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a i r d r e s s e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0069 0072 0064 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4267758470847185857184 |
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