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Definition

a specialist in the study of language

or:

a person who is skilled in multiple languages

linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language

linguist = a person who is skilled in multiple languages

A forensic linguist testified that the latest will appears to have been authored by someone else.

linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language

Linguists disagree about the best way to handle a pronoun referring to a single person whose gender is unknown.

linguists = specialists in the study of language

Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, linguists ....
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

linguists = specialists in the study of language

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguists = language specialists

It will send the linguists back to India with their tape recorders, because it undermines the critical superstructure of their methodology.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguists = language specialists

I'm an even worse linguist than he is.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguist = language expert

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
The linguists in the crowd.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Ay, there are linguists in the settlements that can do still more.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
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

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