philologist

Word Origin & History

1640s, "literary person;" 1716, "student of language," from philology + -ist.

Writing to Holthoff and old Bœckh the philologist for introductions to your father.

Here Wolf, a philologist with historical instinct, was a pioneer.

And why should not a philologist be able to answer questions acutely?

Even if illegitimacy were the only reason, that would not concern the philologist.

Sometimes a philologist had a pet theory which the facts were made to fit.

The names signify respectively “Philologist” and “the Gypsy Gentleman”.

My world is wholly formed of words—so much of a philologist I have become!

A philosopher and philologist, born in Hildesheim, studied in Gottingen and Kiel.

A great but careless linguist, Borrow was assuredly no philologist.

He is a scholar, a philologist; he manages everything in the chteau.

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noun. linguist

noun. specialist in language