Crossword clues for linguist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linguist \Lin"guist\ (l[i^][ng]"gw[i^]st), n. [L. lingua tongue, speech, language: cf. F. linguiste.]
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A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.]
I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist.
--J. Webster. -
A person skilled in languages.
There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "a master of language, one who uses his tongue freely," a hybrid from Latin lingua "language, tongue" (see lingual) + -ist. Meaning "a student of language" first attested 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who studies linguistics. 2 A person skilled in languages. 3 A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
WordNet
n. a specialist in linguistics [syn: linguistic scientist]
a person who speaks more than one language [syn: polyglot]
Wikipedia
A linguist may be:
- a specialist in linguistics
- a language professional such as a translator, interpreter or teacher, see Language interpretation
Linguist may also refer to:
- The Linguist, bimonthly magazine of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
- Polyglot (person) or linguist, a person skilled in multiple languages
Usage examples of "linguist".
Linguists suggest that the fragmentation of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia implies a dispersal five to six thousand years ago.
Why would random individuals from a totally different species that evolved three hundred light-years away have such a freakish understanding of a ritual that the greatest linguists and behaviorists of a dozen other sentient species were still unable to parse?
I will not allow the linguists and geologists to assume preference over, say, the botanists or hydrologists or anyone else.
A company called the Science News Service bought the rights to Interlingua, a language constructed by the International Auxiliary Language Association under the direction of linguists Andre Martinet and Alexander Code.
Xaefyer went immediately to the grandmother and knelt beside the previous linguist.
These alliterative expressions, collected by the linguist Martha Ratcliff, give some inkling of the intimate relationship the Hmong of Laos had with the natural world.
After Beijing he would head northwestward to Uriimqi and Turpan, where Louisa had written to a linguist and other scholars and made reservations for him, and she would head south to Xian, and Nanjing, and more meetings with her fellow citizens in the small world of folklorists.
Radio astronomers, chemists, exobiologists, mathematicians, physicists, cryptanalysts, paleographers, linguists, computer linguists, cosmic linguists.
The eventual outgrowth of much work by phoneticists, semanticists, and linguists on both sides was a language that hopefully combined the better aspects of both.
The linguists, joined by a few mathematicians to strip current superencipherments, moved into a wing of Burgscheidungen Castle near Naumburg, northwest of Wiemar.
Don Juan Pio Perez, who ranks among the ablest Yucatecan linguists of this century.
This is a series of extracts from various ancient Maya manuscripts obtained by the late distinguished Yucatecan antiquary, Don Juan Pio Perez, and named from him by Canon Crescencio Carrillo and other linguists.
The proficiency of the voice linguists was limited at best, but they had a tape recorder attached to the monitoring equipment and could save the conversations for later analysis.
At Karavas, about fifty Soviet and Slavic linguists eavesdropped on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
African coasts, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian linguists eavesdropped on a continent in chaos, tearing itself away from its old colonial bosses only to come under the violent domination of new Cold War masters.