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Linguist

Linguist Meaning & Definition
Linguist Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Linguist?

[n] a person who speaks more than one language
[n] a specialist in linguistics

Synonyms | Synonyms for Linguist: linguistic scientist | polyglot

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | semasiologist

See Also | A. Noam Chomsky | bilingual | Bloomfield | Chomsky | computational linguist | de Saussure | Edward Sapir | Ferdinand de Saussure | Firth | grammarian | Grimm | Hebraist | human | individual | J. R. Firth | Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm | Jakobson | Jens Otto Harry Jespersen | Jespersen | John Rupert Firth | Leonard Bloomfield | lexicographer | lexicologist | man of science | mortal | neurolinguist | Noam Chomsky | Otto Jespersen | person | phonetician | phonologist | psycholinguist | Roman Jakobson | Roman Osipovich Jakobson | Sapir | Saussure | scientist | semanticist | semiotician | sociolinguist | somebody | someone | soul | syntactician | transcriber | translator

Linguist In Webster's Dictionary

\Lin"guist\ (l[i^][ng]"gw[i^]st), n. [L. lingua tongue, speech, language: cf. F. linguiste.] 1. A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. --J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. --Macaulay.

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