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English noun: linguist

1. linguist (person) a specialist in linguistics


Synonymslinguistic scientist


Broader (hypernym)scientist


Narrower (hyponym)computational linguist, grammarian, Hebraist, lexicographer, lexicologist, neurolinguist, phonetician, phonologist, psycholinguist, semanticist, semiotician, sociolinguist, syntactician


Instance hyponymA. Noam Chomsky, Bloomfield, Chomsky, de Saussure, Edward Sapir, Ferdinand de Saussure, Firth, Grimm, J. R. Firth, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Jakobson, Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, Jespersen, John Rupert Firth, Leonard Bloomfield, Noam Chomsky, Otto Jespersen, Roman Jakobson, Roman Osipovich Jakobson, Sapir, Saussure

2. linguist (person) a person who speaks more than one language


Synonymspolyglot


Broader (hypernym)individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul


Narrower (hyponym)bilingual, bilingualist, transcriber, translator


Instance hyponymGreenberg, Harris, Joseph Greenberg, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris









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