'Linguist' definitions:
Definition of 'linguist'
From: WordNet
noun
A specialist in linguistics [syn: linguist, linguistic scientist]
noun
A person who speaks more than one language [syn: linguist, polyglot]
Definition of 'Linguist'
From: GCIDE
- Linguist \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.] [1913 Webster]
- I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. --J. Webster. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person skilled in languages. [1913 Webster]
- There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Linguistic
Synonyms of 'linguist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Linguist'
- Linguistic,
- Linguistical,
- Linguistically,
- Linguistics,
- computational linguist,
- computational linguistics,
- department of linguistics,
- descriptive linguistics,
- diachronic linguistics,
- historical linguistics,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic communication,
- linguistic competence,
- linguistic context,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic performance,
- linguistic process,
- linguistic profiling,
- linguistic relation,
- linguistic rule,
- linguistic scientist,
- linguistic string,
- linguistic unit,
- linguistic universal,
- linguistics department,
- prescriptive linguistics,
- structural linguistics,
- synchronic linguistics,
- cross-linguistic,
- cross-linguistically