Other forms: hairdressers
A hairdresser is the person who cuts and styles hair. Go to the hairdresser, book the hairdresser, a good hairdresser.
Barber traditionally means somebody cutting men's hair, often without an appointment, and hairstylist is the newer term. In Britain, hairdresser also means the shop itself: at the hairdresser. The trade is unregulated in Britain, which surprises people. Note that hairdressers hear a great deal and repeat almost none of it, and that finding a good one is treated as a serious life event.
1nounhairdresserSomebody who cuts and styles hair.
“The same hairdresser has cut her hair for about thirty years.”
synonyms: barber, hairstylist
hairdresser is a personal-care worker.
Also accepted in games: barber, hairstylist
Middle English
her
English
hair
English, today
hairdresser
From hair + dress + -er. hair comes from Middle English her. From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic hār, from Proto-Germanic hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European kes- (“to scrape, comb”). Cognate with stq Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), cim haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German - and Low German Haar (“hair”), lb Hoer (“hair”), mhn hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (“hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA