1 a person who knows several foreign languages well:
She's an excellent linguist. * I'm afraid I'm no linguist (= I find foreign languages difficult).
2 a person who studies languages or LINGUISTICS:
a computational linguist
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for linguist is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is linguist a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, linguist is tagged as noun.
Does linguist appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — linguist appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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