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florist

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈflɒɹɪst//
  • Canada//ˈfloɹɪst//
  • //ˈflɑɹɪst//

A person who sells flowers.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who sells flowers.

  2. 2

    A person who cultivates flowers.

  3. 3

    A person who studies or writes about flowers.

  4. 4

    A florist's shop.

    “After the gown, we can go to the florist, then stop by the lingerie store.”

Etymology

From French fleuriste, from Latin floris (“genitive singular of flōs, flower”), + -ist.

Forms

plural
florists
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).