Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in philology. Also philologer, philologian, philologue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in philology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who engages in
philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; acollector of words and theiretymologies .
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- noun a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
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Examples
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He may have used the word philologist somewhat loosely on occasion.
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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In a move to grab your attention by confusing you, I'm actually not writing about the word philologist today, but rather an intriguing-looking word that may make you stop and grab your dictionary by the short bindings upon encountering it, "it" being today's "Take My Word for It," word:
The Union - All Categories By Diane Dean-Epps Special to Sunday Express 2010
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During my brilliant interview, my philologist was a bit reticent.
Fateful Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing 2010
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FECHER: A philologist is a person who studies the origins and meanings of words.
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Experience, therefore, is certainly an essential prerequisite for a philologist -- that is, the philologist must first of all be a man; for then only can he be productive as a philologist.
We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Lipsius (1547-1606) is known as a philologist and for his treatises on the military art of the Romans, on the Latin classics, and on the philosophy of the Stoics.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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They were both college professors, and though Jorgen, a classical philologist, worked like crazy to find a job at a U.S. university, he wasn't able to.
How to keep it together when the marriage goes long-distance 2011
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Horne Tooke, John (1736 – 1812): a philologist and radical whose etymological work The Diversions of
Index of People 2009
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Also linguistic comparisons with contemporary NHG are more or less impossible, as a few philologist-friends remind me from time to time.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Create a Constitutional Theory Out of This 2010
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COPENHAGEN -- Tonight, Yoani Sánchez -- the world-renowned Cuban blogger and philologist -- will be honored here with the inaugural Freedom Award, in the amount of $50,000, by the independent Danish think tank, CEPOS.
Thor Halvorssen: Yoani Sánchez Forbidden by Cuba to Collect Her Award; CEPOS Freedom Prize Presented in Absentia Thor Halvorssen 2011
seanmeade commented on the word philologist
we love words, plus, it was the profession of The Professor Tolkien
March 26, 2007