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.
Then, in 1982, Mr. Fortin had a chance encounter at a Paris bistro with Jean-Claude Corbeil, a Quebec linguist and longtime acquaintance.
She has added a political touch, if no less controversy, to a group whose godfather is S.I. Hayakawa, the linguist and former senator from California.
The two-year-old school stresses that it has a solid program, invented by a world-famous linguist.
William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist, has made a study of urban dialects.