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linguist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun linguist has 2 senses
- linguist(n = noun.person) linguistic scientist - a specialist in linguistics; Array has particulars: computational linguist, grammarian, syntactician, hebraist, lexicographer, lexicologist, neurolinguist, phonetician, phonologist, psycholinguist, semanticist, semiotician, sociolinguist, bloomfield, leonard bloomfield, a. noam chomsky, chomsky, noam chomsky, de saussure, ferdinand de saussure, saussure, firth, j. r. firth, john rupert firth, grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm, jakobson, roman jakobson, roman osipovich jakobson, jens otto harry jespersen, jespersen, otto jespersen, edward sapir, sapir
- linguist(n = noun.person) polyglot - a person who speaks more than one language; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
is a kind of scientist
Derived forms adjective linguistic2, noun linguistics2, noun linguistics1
has particulars: bilingual, bilingualist, transcriber, translator, greenberg, joseph greenberg, harris, zellig harris, zellig sabbatai harris
Derived form adjective linguistic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
linguist, n. [L. lingua tongue, speech, language: cf. F. linguiste.].
- A master of the use of language; a talker. [1913 Webster]"I'll dispute with him;
He's a rare linguist." [1913 Webster] - A person skilled in languages. [1913 Webster]"There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
linguist, n. a person skilled in languages or linguistics.
Etymology
L lingua language
THESAURUS
linguist
bilingual, dialectician, diglot, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, multilingual, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, polyglot, semanticist, semasiologistROGET THESAURUS
linguist
Scholar
N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.
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