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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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