Definitions for linguist

linguist lin·guist

Spelling: [ling-gwist]
IPA: /ˈlɪŋ gwɪst/

Linguist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in linguist (giilnstu).

Definitions for linguist

noun

  1. a specialist in linguistics.
  2. a person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot.

Origin of linguist

1580-90; Latin lingu(a) tongue, speech + -ist

Examples for linguist

Ross was quite a student in his way and a good deal of a linguist.

Mr Plornish could not conceal his exultation in her accomplishments as a linguist.

His tongue is very voluble, which, with canting, proves him a linguist.

But as linguist Mark Liberman notes at Language Log, the president used the word “I” exactly 10 times in that speech.

linguist Geoffrey Nunberg gives the A-word the biography it so richly deserves.

For example, the creator/writer of Alice in Arabia is Brooke Eikmeier, a former US Army linguist in Arabic.

The keeper of the house where they lodged was in his way a character and a linguist.

I do, sir; I am no linguist, but I believe the words are synonymous.

A linguist of nearly 40 years standing, and nearly 20 years resident abroad.

Put your qualification as a resident merchant and as a linguist as strongly as you like.

Word Value for linguist
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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