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beautician

American  
[byoo-tish-uhn] / bjuˈtɪʃ ən /

noun

beauticians plural
  1. a person trained to style and dress the hair; hairdresser.

  2. a manager or an employee of a beauty salon.


beautician British  
/ bjuːˈtɪʃən /

noun

  1. a person who works in or manages a beauty salon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of beautician

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; beaut(y) + -ician

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She worked at her parents’ general store and for a beautician.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Like many of her fellow volunteers, Hungarian beautician Krisztina Menczel sat idle in the past elections that kept nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in power.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

He didn’t see the beautician in the week leading up to this game, however, because his mom was in town and therefore he didn’t have the time.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2026

The beautician disclosed the house call to the club’s human resources team, one of the former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

His mom was a beautician who sold Avon.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

"Many beauticians often have a little too much freedom. They think they have learned and, without being surgeons, sometimes perform surgical procedures," Kyrgyz plastic surgeon Iskender Kachkinbayev told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

It did not take long to uncover evidence of kits containing levels of chemicals far beyond the legal safe limits being advertised and sold online by other beauticians in the Manchester and Merseyside areas.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2025

But undercover BBC researchers caught several pharmacists trying to prescribe the medicine to beauticians to use on people who had not been clinically assessed.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2025

She sat patiently as ardent beauticians prepared her for her formal investiture, a highlight of the three-day festival — or vela — that celebrates muxe culture here every November.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2024

Her aunt had said brown; the beauticians said black but Violet had never seen a light-skinned person with coal-black eyes.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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