LINGUIST

linguist, polyglot

(noun) a person who speaks more than one language

linguist, linguistic scientist

(noun) a specialist in linguistics

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

linguist (plural linguists)

One who studies linguistics.

A person skilled in languages.

A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

Hyponyms

• (student of languages): orthoepist, dialectician, dialectologist

Hypernyms

• (student of languages): phonetician

Source: Wiktionary


Lin"guist, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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