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Noun philologist has 1 sense

• philologist(n = noun.person) philologue - a humanist specializing in classical scholarship; Array
is a kind of humanist
has particulars: frederick james furnivall, furnivall, baron karl wilhelm von humboldt, baron wilhelm von humboldt, humboldt, friedrich max muller, max muller, muller, james augustus henry murray, james augustus murray, james murray, murray, sir james augustus henry murray, sir james augustus murray, sir james murray, rask, rasmus christian rask, skeat, walter william skeat, j.r.r. tolkien, john ronald reuel tolkien, tolkien, karl adolph verner, verner
Derived form noun philology₁

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philologist

academician, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, genius, giant of learning, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, semanticist, semasiologist, student, walking encyclopedia

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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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