linguist

CEFRC1

/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who studies languages or speaks several languages.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person skilled in languages.

Examples

  • The linguist is fluent in several Chinese dialects.

  • The linguist is quite familiar with the dialect.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who studies linguistics.

  2. One who studies modern-day linguistics, that is, linguistic science.

  3. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

More examples

In context

  • The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.

  • The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.

  • I found that he could write and read English, but could not speak it, being like myself a bad linguist; so we had to use French as a medium of communication.

Antonyms

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.