classicist
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- noun
- /ˈklæsɪsɪst/
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especialista en clásicos
- It was his father's storytelling that turned him into a classicist.
- classicist and historian
And when you talk to like classicists or linguists, that's how they figure out what words mean.
- And when you talk to like classicists or linguists, that's how they figure out what words mean.
- Tonight's speaker is Mary Beard, without any doubt one of the best known classicists currently alive anywhere in the world.
- In fact, the Society for Classical Studies, which is the major organization to which all professional classicists in the, in the United States belong.
- That's apparent to any classicist because you, you use research tools that are all marked by Galen.
Examples
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Tonight's speaker is Mary Beard, without any doubt one of the best known classicists currently alive anywhere in the world.
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Two of the tutors he had during his studies were Ernst Courteous, a German classicist, and Friedrich Christoph Dahlman, a historian and politician.
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I shall see to the matter, as only a highly educated classicist could.
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What, there's another classicist on the island?
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The college professor is a classicist and a Presbyterian.
Academic text (1995) -
Since I am a classicist, I regard myself as something of an interloper on a history panel.
Academic text (1995) -
Other classicists have sought to establish a definitive Greek text, a matter of some moment.
Academic text (2004) -
Sarah Pothecary, a classicist at the University of Toronto, maintains a website listing this recent Strabonic scholarship (2005).
Academic text (2004) -
Interest in Strabo and his Geography, which survives nearly intact in seventeen books, has fluctuated over the centuries among both classicists and historians of geography.
Academic text (2004) -
As a renowned classicist, she specializes in ancient Greek literature and its impact on modern writing.
Synonyms
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A person who studies old written languages and texts like Latin or Greek
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A person who studies Latin and Roman writings
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A person who studies ancient Greek and Latin language, writings, and culture
A person who studies ancient Greek language, literature, and culture
Antonyms
How Classical
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Classicist comes from classic, used for the 'classics' meaning the old Greek and Latin books, and the ending -ist, meaning 'someone who studies'. So a classicist is a scholar who studies the languages, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.