finalist

[ fahyn-l-ist ]

noun
  1. a person entitled to participate in the final or decisive contest in a series, as in musical or athletic competition.

Origin of finalist

1
First recorded in 1895–1900; final + -ist

Words Nearby finalist

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How to use finalist in a sentence

  • The effect of that was that Alan Macfie, the other semi-finalist, had a bye in the morning.

    Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. Hutchinson
  • This reason is a logical necessity, but the logical necessity does not prove the teleological or finalist necessity.

    Tragic Sense Of Life | Miguel de Unamuno
  • Already the finalist theory of life eludes all precise verification.

    Creative Evolution | Henri Bergson
  • What more could the most confirmed finalist say, in order to mark out so exceptional a physico-chemistry?

    Creative Evolution | Henri Bergson
  • The finalist or teleological conception is not any more tenable, for Evolution is not simply the realization of a plan.

    Bergson and His Philosophy | J. Alexander Gunn

British Dictionary definitions for finalist

finalist

/ (ˈfaɪnəlɪst) /


noun
  1. a contestant who has reached the last and decisive stage of a sports or other competition

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