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model

noun [C] (PERSON)
 
 
/ˈmɒd.əl/ US  /ˈmɑː.dəl/

Definition

B1 a person who wears clothes so that they can be photographed or shown to possible buyers, or a person who is employed to be photographed or painted: a fashion/nude model She's going out with a male model. I worked as an artist's model when I was a student. → See also supermodelFashionModern and fashionableModern and fashionable
(Definition of model noun (PERSON) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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