The linguist is fluent in several Chinese dialects.
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Linguist
//ˈlɪŋɡwɪst//
Synonyms for "linguist" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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6 entriesMore specific
10 entriesRelated terms
9 entriescapable of
2 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
is a
3 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
167 translations across 72 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- linguis noun (one who studies linguistics)
- taalkundige noun (one who studies linguistics)
- taalwetenskaplike noun (one who studies linguistics)
Albanian
1 entries- gjuhëtar noun (one who studies linguistics)
Arabic
3 entries- عَالِم لُغَوِيّ noun (one who studies linguistics)
- لُغَوِيّ noun (one who studies linguistics)
- لِسَانِيّ noun (one who studies linguistics)
Armenian
1 entries- լեզվաբան noun (one who studies linguistics)
Asturian
1 entries- llingüista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- dilçi noun (one who studies linguistics)
- dilşünas noun (one who studies linguistics)
- linqvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
Basque
1 entries- hizkuntzalari noun (one who studies linguistics)
Belarusian
4 entries- лінгві́ст noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лінгві́стка noun (one who studies linguistics)
- моваве́д noun (one who studies linguistics)
- мовазна́вец noun (one who studies linguistics)
Bulgarian
4 entries- езикове́д noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лингви́ст noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лингви́стка noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лингвист noun (a person skilled in languages)
Catalan
1 entries- lingüista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Cebuano
2 entries- magdidila noun (one who studies linguistics)
- magdidila noun (a person skilled in languages)
Chechen
1 entries- меттанийн ӏилманча noun (one who studies linguistics)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 語言學家 /语言学家 noun (one who studies linguistics)
- 語言學者 /语言学者 noun (one who studies linguistics)
Czech
4 entries- jazykovědec noun (one who studies linguistics)
- jazykovědkyně noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvista noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvistka noun (one who studies linguistics)
Danish
3 entries- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- sprogforsker noun (one who studies linguistics)
- sprogvidenskabsmand noun (one who studies linguistics)
Dutch
2 entries- linguïst noun (one who studies linguistics)
- taalkundige noun (one who studies linguistics)
Esperanto
1 entries- lingvisto noun (one who studies linguistics)
Faroese
1 entries- málfrøðingur noun (one who studies linguistics)
Finnish
4 entries- kielentutkija noun (one who studies linguistics)
- kielimies noun (a person skilled in languages)
- kieliniekka noun (a person skilled in languages)
- kielitieteilijä noun (one who studies linguistics)
French
1 entries- linguiste noun (one who studies linguistics)
Galician
2 entries- lingüista noun (one who studies linguistics)
- tradutor noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
Georgian
2 entries- ენათმეცნიერი noun (one who studies linguistics)
- ლინგვისტი noun (one who studies linguistics)
German
4 entries- Linguist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- Linguistin noun (one who studies linguistics)
- Sprachforscher noun (one who studies linguistics)
- Sprachforscherin noun (one who studies linguistics)
Greek
1 entries- γλωσσολόγος noun (one who studies linguistics)
Greenlandic
1 entries- oqaasilerisoq noun (one who studies linguistics)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּלְשָׁן noun (one who studies linguistics)
Hindi
1 entries- भाषाविद noun (one who studies linguistics)
Hungarian
4 entries- fordító noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
- idegen nyelveken tudó ember (jól) noun (a person skilled in languages)
- idegen nyelveket beszélő ember (jól) noun (a person skilled in languages)
- nyelvtudós noun (one who studies linguistics)
Icelandic
1 entries- málvísindamaður noun (one who studies linguistics)
Interlingua
1 entries- linguista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Irish
1 entries- teangeolaí noun (one who studies linguistics)
Italian
1 entries- linguista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Japanese
4 entries- 翻訳家 noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
- 翻訳者 noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
- 言語学者 noun (one who studies linguistics)
- 通訳 noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
Kazakh
2 entries- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
- тіл маманы noun (one who studies linguistics)
Khmer
1 entries- ភាសាវិទូ noun (one who studies linguistics)
Korean
1 entries- 언어학자 noun (one who studies linguistics)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
Lao
1 entries- ນັກພາສາສາດ noun (one who studies linguistics)
Latvian
2 entries- lingvists noun (one who studies linguistics)
- valodnieks noun (one who studies linguistics)
Lithuanian
3 entries- kalbininkas noun (one who studies linguistics)
- kalbotyrininkas noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvistas noun (one who studies linguistics)
Macedonian
2 entries- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
- јазичар noun (one who studies linguistics)
Manx
2 entries- glareydagh noun (one who studies linguistics)
- çhengeyder noun (one who studies linguistics)
Norman
1 entries- lîndgiste noun (one who studies linguistics)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkforsker noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkvitenskapsmann noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkviter noun (one who studies linguistics)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkforskar noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkvetar noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkvitar noun (one who studies linguistics)
Occitan
1 entries- lingüista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Persian
1 entries- زبانشناس noun (one who studies linguistics)
Polish
4 entries- językoznawca noun (one who studies linguistics)
- językoznawczyni noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingwista noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingwista noun (a person skilled in languages)
Portuguese
4 entries- intérprete noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
- linguista noun (one who studies linguistics)
- linguista noun (a person skilled in languages)
- tradutor noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
Romanian
4 entries- interpret noun (a human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces)
- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvistă noun (one who studies linguistics)
- poliglot noun (a person skilled in languages)
Russian
3 entries- лингви́ст noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лингви́стка noun (one who studies linguistics)
- языкове́д noun (one who studies linguistics)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- cainntear noun (one who studies linguistics)
- cànanaiche noun (one who studies linguistics)
- teangaiche noun (one who studies linguistics)
- teangair noun (one who studies linguistics)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jezikoslóvac noun (one who studies linguistics)
- jezikòslōvka noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvìstica noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lìngvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
Slovak
4 entries- jazykovedec noun (one who studies linguistics)
- jazykovedkyňa noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvista noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lingvistka noun (one who studies linguistics)
Slovene
2 entries- jezikoslovec noun (one who studies linguistics)
- jezikoslovka noun (one who studies linguistics)
Southern Altai
1 entries- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
Spanish
1 entries- lingüista noun (one who studies linguistics)
Swahili
1 entries- mwanaisimu noun (one who studies linguistics)
Swedish
3 entries- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkforskare noun (one who studies linguistics)
- språkvetare noun (one who studies linguistics)
Tagalog
1 entries- dalubwika noun (one who studies linguistics)
Tajik
2 entries- забоншинос noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
Tatar
3 entries- лингвист noun (one who studies linguistics)
- тел белгече noun (one who studies linguistics)
- телче noun (one who studies linguistics)
Thai
1 entries- นักภาษาศาสตร์ noun (one who studies linguistics)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྐད་རིགས་མཁས་པ noun (one who studies linguistics)
Turkish
2 entries- dilbilimci noun (one who studies linguistics)
- lengüist noun (one who studies linguistics)
Ukrainian
3 entries- лінгві́ст noun (one who studies linguistics)
- лінгві́стка noun (one who studies linguistics)
- мовозна́вець noun (one who studies linguistics)
Uyghur
1 entries- تىلشۇناس noun (one who studies linguistics)
Uzbek
3 entries- lingvist noun (one who studies linguistics)
- tilchi noun (one who studies linguistics)
- tilshunos noun (one who studies linguistics)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhà ngôn ngữ học noun (one who studies linguistics)
Volapük
2 entries- pükavan noun (one who studies linguistics)
- pükavans noun (one who studies linguistics)
Welsh
1 entries- ieithydd noun (one who studies linguistics)
Yiddish
3 entries- לינגוויסט noun (one who studies linguistics)
- שפּראַכפֿאָרשער noun (one who studies linguistics)
- שפּראַכקענער noun (one who studies linguistics)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The linguist is quite familiar with the dialect.
Source: tatoeba (239747)
Two of my friends are researchers; one is a linguist, the other a chemist.
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Edward Sapir was an American linguist.
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