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Definition of linguist
1 : a person accomplished in languages; especially : one who speaks several languages
2 : a person who specializes in linguistics
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Recent Examples of linguist from the Web
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Winner was a linguist while in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016 and speaks Farsi, Dari and Pashto, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, has said.
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Amy Adams riveted audiences with performances in Arrival, as the linguist Dr. Louise Banks, and in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, as Susan, an art gallerist disillusioned by her life choices.
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The 25-year-old former U.S. Air Force linguist was charged on June 5 with providing the online publication, The Intercept, with a top-secret document that detailed Russian hacking efforts in the days before the 2016 election.
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Winner, a former Air Force linguist, faces up to 10 years in prison for leaking classified information.
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But as writer Nick Douglas recently highlighted in Lifehacker, linguists have another explanation for uptalk, one that positions it not as a verbal tic, but as a valuable tool of communication.
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In the back roads of County Donegal, Ireland, an American linguist finds a forlorn child with a stutter, and his mother — once a famous actress who vanished at the height of her career.
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Most linguists say emoji are not currently a language—
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When linguists first wondered where color categories came from, physicists had no answer.
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Origin and Etymology of linguist
Latin lingua language, tongue
Other Grammar and Linguistics Terms
LINGUIST Defined for English Language Learners
linguist
playDefinition of linguist for English Language Learners
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: a person who speaks several languages
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: a person who studies linguistics
LINGUIST Defined for Kids
linguist
playDefinition of linguist for Students
1 : a person skilled in languages
2 : a person who specializes in the study of human speech
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