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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a specialist in linguistics;
[syn: linguist, linguistic scientist]

2. a person who speaks more than one language;
[syn: linguist, polyglot]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. --J. Webster. [1913 Webster] 2. A person skilled in languages. [1913 Webster] There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Linguistic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

linguist n 1: a specialist in linguistics [syn: linguist, linguistic scientist] 2: a person who speaks more than one language [syn: linguist, polyglot]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "linguist": bilingual, dialectician, diglot, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, multilingual, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, polyglot, semanticist, semasiologist