Synonyms for Linguist:
n.
chemist, astrophysicist, archeologist, astronomer, botanist, philologist, lexicographer, astrologer, biologist, cosmologist, classicist, archaeologist, grammarian. conversant, scholar, savant. •lexicographer (noun)lexicographer, philologist.
•linguist (noun)
linguistic scientist, polyglot.
•person (noun)
linguistic scientist.
•specialist in language (noun)
polyglot, grammarian, lexicographer, philologist.
Other synonyms:
lexicographer, philologist. •linguist
grammarian.
•Other relevant words:
classicist, archeologist, grammarian, chemist, biologist, savant, archaeologist, philologist, cosmologist, conversant, astronomer, astrologer, botanist, scholar, astrophysicist, lexicographer.
Usage examples for linguist
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Latin and German she studied in school, Italian in the studio with Professor Arena, Spanish from her father, who is a linguist – Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake-Alverson
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I am to marry a Sultan, for I am moon- faced; but Mary is to be a linguist for she has large eyes. – Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances by Juliana Horatia Ewing
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She was generally supposed to be pure French, and her accent supported the theory, though she was in a small way a linguist – The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Various