linguist
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
- Specialized
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lingüista
- A linguist analyzes the structure and meaning of different languages.
- linguists and anthropologists
- linguist trainer
- linguists and folklorists
And there are two linguists on set with binders.
- And there are two linguists on set with binders.
- So, great linguist, but terrible social scientist.
- I mean, linguists have known this forever.
- So there are studies that look at where linguist record speech and then play it back.
- And when you talk to like classicists or linguists, that's how they figure out what words mean.
- Who are your, you know, you are a linguist by trade.
- Become the the linguist you want.
- How did you get into all of this ancient religious stuff and ancient texts and linguists and and this whole world?
- So I just sit on my foot and I, I look back behind me to my Rifleman, but he's my speaker, my linguist.
Examples
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Noam Chomsky, famous linguist, famous political activist.
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Lou Hoover was a shot put champion, a geology major at Stanford and an accomplished linguist.
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Her father had been a linguist, and once she had wanted to be one too.
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The father, a famous linguist, settled in this valley after he retired from Columbia.
Fiction book (1996) -
I mean, linguists have known this forever.
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And this is Professor Gibbs, a linguist.
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Amanda is a writer, linguist, and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult.
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The work of American linguists and language pedagogists is now well known throughout the world.
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She's a linguist.
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First, as Wendat linguist John Steckley stated, translation issues were common during French and indigenous interactions.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A person who studies language to understand how it works
Compounds
- Specialized
A person who uses computers to study and process human language
How Expert
Surface Forms
Morphology
linguist = linguistics (transparent) = lingu + ist
The suffix '-ist' clearly indicates a person associated with or specializing in the root field.
Etymology
The word linguist comes from the Latin lingua 'tongue' and the ending -ist 'person who does something', so a linguist is someone who studies language.