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单词 linguist
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linguist

(lɪŋgwɪst)
Word forms: plural linguists
1. countable noun
A linguist is someone who is good at speaking or learning foreign languages.
Her brother was an accomplished linguist.
2. countable noun
A linguist is someone who studies or teaches linguistics.

linguist in British English

(ˈlɪŋɡwɪst)
noun
1. 
a person who has the capacity to learn and speak foreign languages
2. 
a person who studies linguistics
3.  West Africa and especially Ghana
the spokesman for a chief
Word origin
C16: from Latin lingua tongue

linguist in American English

(ˈlɪŋgwɪst)
noun
1. 
a specialist in linguistics
see also philologist
2.  Loosely
polyglot (sense 3)
Word origin
< L lingua (see language) + -ist1

Examples of 'linguist' in a sentence
linguist

Many linguists and philosophers in recent years have cast doubt on this claim.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
It is time to let the linguists and philosophers join in.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
My son is considered very bright and a gifted linguist by the school.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He was by all measures a gifted linguist with a working knowledge of a dozen languages.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
He was also a gifted linguist and had an inexhaustible appetite for knowledge and culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Expert players average 35 points a turn and are more likely to be mathematicians than linguists.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He was an accomplished linguist.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

In other languages
linguist

British English: linguist /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ NOUN
A linguist is someone who is good at speaking or learning foreign languages.
He was a very able linguist, able to speak eight or nine languages.
  • American English: linguist
  • Arabic: لُغَوِيٌّ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: linguista
  • Chinese: 语言学家
  • Croatian: lingvist
  • Czech: polyglot
  • Danish: lingvist
  • Dutch: taalkundige
  • European Spanish: lingüista
  • Finnish: kielitieteilijä
  • French: linguiste
  • German: Sprachkundiger
  • Greek: γλωσσομαθής
  • Italian: linguista
  • Japanese: 言語学者
  • Korean: 언어학자
  • Norwegian: lingvist
  • Polish: lingwista
  • European Portuguese: linguista
  • Romanian: lingvist
  • Russian: лингвист
  • Latin American Spanish: lingüista
  • Swedish: lingvist
  • Thai: นักภาษาศาสตร์
  • Turkish: dilbilimci
  • Ukrainian: лінгвіст
  • Vietnamese: nhà ngôn ngữ học

Chinese translation of 'linguist'

linguist

(ˈlɪŋɡwɪst)

n (c)

  1. (knowing languages) 通晓(曉)数(數)国(國)语(語)言的人 (tōngxiǎo shù guó yǔyán de rén) (名, míng)
  2. (knowing linguistics) 语(語)言学(學)家 (yǔyánxuéjiā)
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