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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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


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

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

The beautician used it to claim she was qualified to treat clients and take bookings.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

She employed one beautician, a blond girl who wore orange lipstick and lived out in the country and came into Suffolk every day to work.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

"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 said the cosmetics industry had long been plagued by unlicensed practitioners and confirmed the government was assessing reforms, including tougher licensing of non-medical professionals such as beauticians.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

Luxury Medical Aesthetics and Academy based in Clapham, south-west London, have been running one day training courses for beauticians advertised as a "fat reduction masterclass".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

“The beauticians got a group, they marched. Everybody marched after the teachers marched.”

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

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