LINGUIST Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

linguist

noun

Definition of linguist

as in novelist

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Recent Examples of linguist That posh accent is a relatively modern invention, linguist John McWhorter wrote earlier this year in the New York Times. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2026 As a linguist who studies language, meaning and culture, I am fascinated by these marketing mishaps, which highlight a long-standing challenge for global brands. — Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026 As a cognitive scientist and linguist, a lot of my research training is about symbols and about the construction of identity in that way. — Stephanie Shih june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for linguist

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Noun

He was dressed like a director, in blacks and blues—jeans, baseball cap, puffer coat, Hokas—but spoke and moved at the unhurried pace of a novelist, his original vocation.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
The competition was judged by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, novelist Neal Stephenson, Google‘s Mira Lane, Salesforce executive John Zissimos and ‘Star Trek’ steward Rod Roddenberry.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of novelist

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FloridaGeorgiaIllinoisTennesseeTexas 7 of 11 The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a poet and essayist known for her translations.

— New York Times, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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