A person skilled in languages; usually applied to a person well versed in the languages taught in colleges, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A master of the use of language; a talker.
2. A person skilled in languages.
Alt. of Linguistical
Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist.
The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
Scholar Roget’s Thesaurus §492
N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, mezzofanti, admirable crichton, mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned theban, don, artium baccalaureus, artium magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, dr. pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy
Adj. learned, brought up at the feet of gamaliel
Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one", "the manifold linguist"
No Bible verses found for "Linguist".