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Definition
a specialist in the study of languageor:
a person who is skilled in multiple languages
- She is a linguist specializing in Native American languages.
linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language
- She is a born linguist—speaking six languages by the time she was fifteen.
- A forensic linguist testified that the latest will appears to have been authored by someone else.
- Linguists disagree about the best way to handle a pronoun referring to a single person whose gender is unknown.
- Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, linguists ....Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- I refused to become a princess but adopted the titles of Court Linguist and Cook's Helper.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- These cats do their best, but they're not linguists.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- A born linguist, Molly began to learn a Senegalese local language, Wolof, and then signed up for the Peace Corps in Senegal.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- Mr Plornish could not conceal his exultation in her accomplishments as a linguist.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist, and the armipotent soldier.William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
- Ay, there are linguists in the settlements that can do still more.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- The linguists in the crowd.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- I'm no linguist myself, but I know what I call Shopping and Hotel-snappy bits in French and German and Italian.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- Sociologists and linguists probably will tell you that a person's developing language skills are more influenced by peers.Amy Tan -- Mother Tongue
- I am a linguist of the field.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- Many linguists have tried to understand Babel, the question of why human language tends to fragment, rather than converging on a common tongue?Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- "And Master Linguist," said the Chancellor.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- He had just been reading the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- Charles W. F. Dumas was a Dutch radical and friend of Franklin, a schoolmaster, linguist, and man of letters.David McCullough -- John Adams
- I was finishing my training when a notice came around inviting linguists to apply for specialist service abroad.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
linguist = a person who is skilled in multiple languages
linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language
linguists = specialists in the study of language
linguists = specialists in the study of language