Associations to the word «Linguist»

Wiktionary

LINGUIST, noun. One who studies linguistics.
LINGUIST, noun. A person skilled in languages.
LINGUIST, noun. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

Dictionary definition

LINGUIST, noun. A specialist in linguistics.
LINGUIST, noun. A person who speaks more than one language.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne