metallurgist

1. 1.

   an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals

   Synonymsmetallurgical engineer

   Broaderengineer

   NarrowerBessemer

Other forms of metallurgist

plural

metallurgists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about metallurgist

What does metallurgist mean?

metallurgist means "an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals".

How many syllables are in metallurgist?

metallurgist has 4 syllables: me-tal-lur-gist. The stress falls on "tal".

What is another word for metallurgist?

Close synonyms include metallurgical engineer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metallurgist a common word?

metallurgist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.