Philologist

3 definitions found

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

  Philologist \Phi*lol"o*gist\, n.
     One versed in philology.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  philologist
       n : a humanist specializing in classical scholarship [syn: {philologue}]

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

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "philologist":
     academician, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge,
     dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, genius, giant of learning,
     glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist,
     humanist, learned clerk, learned man, lexicographer, lexicologist,
     linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician,
     literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning,
     man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, orthoepist,
     paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologue,
     philomath, philosophe, philosopher, phonemicist, phonetician,
     phoneticist, phonologist, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant,
     scholar, scholastic, schoolman, semanticist, semasiologist,
     student, walking encyclopedia