English noun: linguist |
1. | linguist (person) a specialist in linguistics |
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| Synonyms | linguistic scientist |
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| Broader (hypernym) | scientist |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | computational linguist, grammarian, Hebraist, lexicographer, lexicologist, neurolinguist, phonetician, phonologist, psycholinguist, semanticist, semiotician, sociolinguist, syntactician |
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| Instance hyponym | A. 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 |
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2. | linguist (person) a person who speaks more than one language |
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| Synonyms | polyglot |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bilingual, bilingualist, transcriber, translator |
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| Instance hyponym | Greenberg, Harris, Joseph Greenberg, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris |
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