Linguicist
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who discriminates on the basis of language.
"Many Western linguicists may never have experienced cross-linguistic interactional reciprocity. Not experiencing situations with equal relations between languages, and always being linguistically unthreatened my dull sensitivity to language issues."
- 2 One who studies language; a linguist. dated
"Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists."
Adjective
- 1 Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
"Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals."
Example
More examples"Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals."
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