medalist
noun/ˈmɛdəlɪst/
Etymology From medal + -ist.
1
US An engraver, designer or maker of medals.
- [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court.2008, William McCarthy, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Johns Hopkins, page 134:
2
US Someone who has received a medal.
- Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.
- Derived terms
- bronze medalist, gold medalist, silver medalist