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linguist

lin·guist
L l

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ling-gwist]
    • /ˈlɪŋ gwɪst/
    • /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwɪst/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ling-gwist]
    • /ˈlɪŋ gwɪst/

Definitions of linguist word

  • noun linguist a specialist in linguistics. 1
  • noun linguist a person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot. 1
  • noun linguist A person skilled in foreign languages. 1
  • noun linguist linguistics expert 1
  • noun linguist sb who speaks several languages 1
  • noun linguist language student 1
See all 16 definitions of linguist

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Origin of linguist

First appearance:

before 1580
One of the 35% oldest English words
1580-90; < Latin lingu(a) tongue, speech + -ist

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Parts of speech for Linguist

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Linguist

linguist popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for linguist

noun linguist

  • interpreter — a person who interprets.
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • grammarian — a specialist or expert in grammar.
  • polyglot — able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
  • philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
All 8 Synonyms of linguist

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Related words

  • bloomfield

    Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)

  • bloomfieldian

    Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.

  • chomsky

    (Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

  • comparative linguistics

    the study of the correspondences between languages that have a common origin.

  • crichton

    James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents

  • emic

    Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme.
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