classicist
noun
clas·si·cist
ˈkla-sə-sist 
1
: an advocate or follower of classicism
2
: a classical scholar
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Frost was very much a man of letters, a classicist and, alongside his future wife, Elinor, a co-valedictorian of his high school, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
King is a British classicist interested in the many ways that women’s bodies have been misunderstood by the Western world, including the damage done by Christianity.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
At that time even Greek modern national identity was still in flux: less than a century earlier, Greek speakers, under the influence of English and German classicists, had stopped calling themselves Romaioi, or Romans, and instead begun referring to themselves as Hellenes.
—Victor A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2018
That left Baskin to sift through several leading English translations — including a recent one by University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson, likely the first by a woman.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
King is a British classicist interested in the many ways that women’s bodies have been misunderstood by the Western world, including the damage done by Christianity.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
At that time even Greek modern national identity was still in flux: less than a century earlier, Greek speakers, under the influence of English and German classicists, had stopped calling themselves Romaioi, or Romans, and instead begun referring to themselves as Hellenes.
—Victor A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2018
That left Baskin to sift through several leading English translations — including a recent one by University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson, likely the first by a woman.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for classicist
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“Classicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classicist. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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