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Linguist

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.

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

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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