linguist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++lin·guist /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ ●○○ noun [countable] 1. SPEAK A LANGUAGEsomeone who is good at foreign languages, especially someone who speaks several 通晓外语的人；〔尤指〕会说几种外语的人2. SLsomeone who studies or teaches linguistics 语言学家
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linguist• A brilliant linguist, he was also deeply interested in botany, chemistry and other scientific subjects.• But linguists use the term very differently.• Psycholinguists then produce theories of human parsing, and computational linguists produce theories of automated parsing.• Day after day, skilled linguists don headsets and listen to the stolen conversations of foreign leaders in more than 100 languages.• But the linguist can not determine relevance.• It is characteristic of theoretical linguists that they select example sentences that computational linguists would categorise as pathological.• The results should be of interest to linguists, philosophers and cognitive psychologists.Origin linguist (1500-1600) Latin lingua; LINGUALlin·guist nounChineseSyllable
good someone Corpus who especially is at foreign languages,
linguist
lin‧guist /ˈlɪŋɡwəst, ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
noun [countable]
2. someone who studies or teaches linguistics
lin‧guist /ˈlɪŋɡwəst, ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
noun [countable] Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: lingua; LINGUAL
1. someone who is good at foreign languages, especially someone who speaks severalLanguage: Latin
Origin: lingua; LINGUAL
2. someone who studies or teaches linguistics