Hypertext Webster Gateway: "linguist"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Linguist \Lin"guist\ (l[i^][ng]"gw[i^]st), n. [L. lingua tongue,
speech, language: cf. F. linguiste.]
1. A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.]
I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. --J.
Webster.
2. A person skilled in languages.
There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and
Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
linguist
n 1: a specialist in linguistics [syn: {linguistic scientist}]
2: a person who speaks more than one language [syn: {polyglot}]
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