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PHILOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A humanist specializing in classical scholarship
Synonyms:
philologist; philologue
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("philologist" is a kind of...):
humanist (a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts)
Instance hyponyms:
Frederick James Furnivall; Furnivall (English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910))
Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt; Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt; Humboldt (German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835))
Friedrich Max Muller; Max Muller; Muller (British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900))
James Augustus Henry Murray; James Augustus Murray; James Murray; Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Murray; Sir James Murray (Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915))
Rask; Rasmus Christian Rask (Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832))
Skeat; Walter William Skeat (English philologist (1835-1912))
J.R.R. Tolkien; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; Tolkien (British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973))
Karl Adolph Verner; Verner (Danish philologist (1846-1896))
Derivation:
philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)
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