grammarian

[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]

/ grəˈmɛər i ən /

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noun

a specialist or expert in grammar.

a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.

Origin of grammarian

1350–1400; Middle English gramarien<Old French gramairien.See grammar, -ian

Words nearby grammarian

graminology, gram-ion, grammage, grammalogue, grammar, grammarian, grammar school, grammar-translation method, grammatical, grammatical gender, grammaticality

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Example sentences from the Web for grammarian

The grammarian Tyrannion supposedly had 30,000 of them; the physician Serenus Sammonicus is reputed to have had 60,000.
The Book That Changed the World|Jimmy So|October 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But the grammarian was true to one side only of Browning's philosophy of life.
Introduction to Robert Browning|Hiram Corson
(b) No Roman grammarian mentions more than one sound as belonging to g, although they treat of the letters minutely.
Latin Pronunciation|Harry Thurston Peck
This epigram may have been added by the first editor of Theocritus, Artemidorus the Grammarian.
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus|Theocritus

Wide as Bain's influence has been as a logician, a grammarian and a writer on rhetoric, his reputation rests on his psychology.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2|Various
In a rather amusing passage he contrasts the kind of use which would be made of a Virgil lesson by a philosopher and a grammarian.
Seekers after God|Frederic William Farrar

British Dictionary definitions for grammarian

grammarian

/ (ɡrəˈmɛərɪən) /

noun

a person whose occupation is the study of grammar

the author of a grammar

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单词	grammarian
释义	grammarian [ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ] / grəˈmɛər i ən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR grammarian ON THESAURUS.COM noun a specialist or expert in grammar. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language. Origin of grammarian 1350–1400; Middle English gramarien<Old French gramairien.See grammar, -ian Words nearby grammarian graminology, gram-ion, grammage, grammalogue, grammar, grammarian, grammar school, grammar-translation method, grammatical, grammatical gender, grammaticality Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for grammarian The grammarian Tyrannion supposedly had 30,000 of them; the physician Serenus Sammonicus is reputed to have had 60,000. The Book That Changed the World\|Jimmy So\|October 7, 2011\|DAILY BEAST But the grammarian was true to one side only of Browning's philosophy of life. Introduction to Robert Browning\|Hiram Corson (b) No Roman grammarian mentions more than one sound as belonging to g, although they treat of the letters minutely. Latin Pronunciation\|Harry Thurston Peck This epigram may have been added by the first editor of Theocritus, Artemidorus the Grammarian. Theocritus, Bion and Moschus\|Theocritus Wide as Bain's influence has been as a logician, a grammarian and a writer on rhetoric, his reputation rests on his psychology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2\|Various In a rather amusing passage he contrasts the kind of use which would be made of a Virgil lesson by a philosopher and a grammarian. Seekers after God\|Frederic William Farrar British Dictionary definitions for grammarian grammarian / (ɡrəˈmɛərɪən) / noun a person whose occupation is the study of grammar the author of a grammar Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to grammarian rhetorician, philologist
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grammarian

noun

Origin of grammarian

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noun

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