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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
metallurgist is a noun meaning "an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals". It carries one recorded sense.
an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for metallurgist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.