Associations to the word «Philologist»

Wiktionary

PHILOLOGIST, noun. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

Dictionary definition

PHILOLOGIST, noun. A humanist specializing in classical scholarship.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King