Linguist Synonyms

lĭnggwĭst
Student of language
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. philologist
  2. lexicographer
  3. grammarian
  4. linguistician
  5. polyglot
  6. etymologist
  7. philologer
  8. structuralist
  9. structural linguist
  10. usagist
  11. transformationalist
  12. transformational grammarian
  13. phonologist
  14. dialectician
  15. vocabulist
  16. glossographer
  17. glossologist
  18. glottologist
  19. phoneticist
  20. phonetician
  21. phonemist
  22. grammatist
  23. lexiconist
  24. philologue
  25. linguistic-scientist
  26. interpreter
  27. stratificationalist
  28. stratificational grammarian
  29. tagmemist
  30. glottochronologist
  31. comparativist
  32. comparative (Indo-European) grammarian
  33. reconstructionist
  34. linguistic geographer
  35. semanticist
Speaker of many languages
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. polyglot
  2. translator
  3. polyglottist
  4. savant
  5. conversant
  6. Pangloss
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Linguist Sentence Examples

  • He was already a good linguist, understanding both Latin and Hebrew.

  • During his university career he became an accomplished linguist, and even before he took his M.A.

  • She was an accomplished linguist, musician and mathematician, and deeply interested in metaphysics.

  • An accomplished man of letters, a competent critic of art, a linguist of rare perfection and charming in manner, but cynical and pleasureloving, he was certainly one of the chief diplomatic personages in the reign of the last of the tsars.

  • Harlay de Sancy was a learned man and a good linguist, who used his opportunities to acquire a valuable collection of oriental MSS., many of which are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

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