Thesaurus:linguist

Thesaurus

linguist

English

Noun

Sense: a practitioner of linguistics

Synonyms

• linguist

Hypernyms

• scientist    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• dialectologist
• grammarian
• phonetician
• phonologist
• morphologist
• syntactician
• semanticist
• psycholinguist
• sociolinguist
• neurolinguist

Various

• scholar
• philologist    [⇒ thesaurus]
• linguistics    [⇒ thesaurus]
• language    [⇒ thesaurus]

Instances

Very notable instances

• Bloomfield
• Chomsky
• Clark
• de Saussure
• Firth
• Grice
• Grimm
• Jakobson
• Jespersen
• Pinker
• Sapir

Further reading

• “492. scholar” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “linguist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• Wikidata:linguist
• List of linguists on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “linguist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• "linguist" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• 7 Linguists Who Changed the Game, listenandlearn.org