linguist
English Thesaurus
1. a person who speaks more than one language (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | transcriber, translator, |
| definition | : | a person who translates written messages from one language to another (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | greenberg, joseph greenberg, |
| definition | : | United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | harris, zellig harris, zellig sabbatai harris, |
| definition | : | United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992) (noun.person) |
2. a specialist in linguistics (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | scientist, |
| definition | : | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | computational linguist, |
| definition | : | someone trained in computer science and linguistics who uses computers for natural language processing (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | grammarian, syntactician, |
| definition | : | a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | hebraist, |
| definition | : | linguist specializing in the Hebrew language (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | lexicographer, lexicologist, |
| definition | : | a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | neurolinguist, |
| definition | : | someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | phonetician, |
| definition | : | a specialist in phonetics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | phonologist, |
| definition | : | a specialist in phonology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | psycholinguist, |
| definition | : | a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | sociolinguist, |
| definition | : | a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bloomfield, leonard bloomfield, |
| definition | : | United States linguist who adopted a behavioristic approach to linguistics (1887-1949) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | a. noam chomsky, chomsky, noam chomsky, |
| definition | : | United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | de saussure, ferdinand de saussure, saussure, |
| definition | : | Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | firth, j. r. firth, john rupert firth, |
| definition | : | English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm, |
| definition | : | the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | edward sapir, sapir, |
| definition | : | anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939) (noun.person) |
3. a person who speaks more than one language (noun.person)
| derivation | : | polyglot, |
| definition | : | having a command of or composed in many languages (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | lingual, linguistic, |
| definition | : | consisting of or related to language (adj.pert) |
4. a specialist in linguistics (noun.person)
| derivation | : | linguistics, philology, |
| definition | : | the humanistic study of language and literature (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | linguistic, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the scientific study of language (adj.pert) |
5. a person who speaks more than one language (noun.person)
| derivation | : | polyglot, |
| definition | : | having a command of or composed in many languages (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | lingual, linguistic, |
| definition | : | consisting of or related to language (adj.pert) |
6. a specialist in linguistics (noun.person)
| derivation | : | linguistics, philology, |
| definition | : | the humanistic study of language and literature (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | linguistic, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the scientific study of language (adj.pert) |
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