Grammarian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grammarian \Gram*ma"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. grammairien.]
     1. One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a
        philologist.
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     Note: "The term was used by the classic ancients as a term of


           honorable distinction for all who were considered
           learned in any art or faculty whatever." --Brande & C.
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     2. One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grammarian
       n : a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and
           syntax [syn: {syntactician}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

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