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hygienist

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Word definitions for hygienist in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person skilled in hygienics

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dental hygienist COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dental ▪ Ask your dentist or dental hygienist for advice on using floss. ▪ A high percentage of telephone operators are black, for example, but only a very small ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hygienist \Hy"gi*en*ist\, n. One versed in hygiene.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, "an expert on cleanliness," from hygiene + -ist . Earlier was hygeist (1716). Dental sense is recorded by 1913.

Usage examples of hygienist.

This form of campaign, although usually calling itself eugenic, has been due far less to eugenists than to sex hygienists who have chosen to sail under a borrowed flag.

Its conclusion is the necrobiotic and infecting destruction of the plasmatic tissue of an organ by a number of roads that the hygienist and the physician must endeavor to close!

Bridgetown Grill was hotter still, flaring with the spit and sizzle of Jamaican cooking in the open kitchen that ran the length of the narrow gallery painted with palm trees and crowded by fast-talking dental hygienists whose glasses kept steaming up, and by white rastas whose dreads drabbled through their blackened fish and hot sauce unnoticed.

And nowhere else is there more striking tendency to throw the whole business of training the minds of children upon professional teachers, and the whole business of instructing them in morals and religion upon so-called Sunday-schools, and the whole business of developing and caring for their bodies upon playground experts, sex hygienists and other such professionals, most of them mountebanks.

For one clerk who succumbs to the houris of the pave, there are five hundred who succumb to lack of means, the warnings of the sex hygienists, and their own depressing consciences.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

An interesting conversation piece, while my hygienist was in your mouth.

They'd met in Springfield, Missouri, where Amy worked as a dental hygienist.

It wasn't easy to raise a family on a bus driver's wages, even if his wife worked part-time as a dental hygienist.

Betsy Booker had been a dental hygienist in Columbus but hated it because no matter what kind of shoes she bought, her feet hurt all the time.

He was raking leaves from between the rows of white marble teeth, as though he were some sort of macabre dental hygienist.

The ex-wife of another member, a dental hygienist from Burbank, turned out to be Allison Wisnowski.