philatelist
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- noun
- /ˌfɪləˈtɛlɪst/
- Specialized
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filatelista
- Many philatelists gather at annual conventions to share their knowledge and trade stamps.
Examples
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Philatelists will be excited to know that there is also a deluxe version, and now
Blog text (25) -
A crowd gathered around philatelists huddled over their precious, beautiful stamps.
Fiction book (1994) -
I wanted to be a philatelist.
Fiction book (2002) -
Like me, my father was a philatelist, and over the years his stamp collection
Academic text (1998) -
He should have become a philatelist.
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Gretchen's brother is a philatelist.
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I am a historian, philatelist, and also a direct descendant of Robert I of Normandy.
Blog text (32) -
As a former philatelist, I can experience punctuational chaos vicariously in the pages of my stamp album by tracing the hyperinflations of Hungary in 1946 and Germany in 1923.
Academic text (1992) -
As a passionate philatelist, she spends hours carefully organizing her extensive collection of rare stamps.
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He became a philatelist after discovering the joy of collecting stamps from different countries.
Synonyms
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A person who collects stamps as a hobby or to study them
How Dedicated
Surface Forms
Morphology
philatelist = philately (semi-transparent) = philatel + ist
Formally derived from the noun 'philately' with the agentive suffix '-ist', but the stem 'philatel-' and 'philately' are low-frequency and not immediately transparent to most learners.
Etymology
Philatelist comes from Greek parts philo- ('love'), the same philo- you see in bibliophile, and atelia ('without payment'). Because stamps showed that postage was already paid, a philatelist is literally a 'lover of stamps', which is why the word means someone who collects and studies postage stamps.