linguist

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a specialist in linguistics
  2. noun a person who speaks more than one language

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.

In classic literature

Synonyms

linguistic scientist

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
scientist
Narrower (hyponyms)
phonologist, sociolinguist, lexicographer, neurolinguist, grammarian, hebraist

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