Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who writes glosses or compiles glossaries.
- noun A philologist; one versed in or engaged in the study of glossology. Also
glottologist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
defines andexplains terms ; one versed inglossology .
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But the eventual success of linguist over glossologist would not have been easily predicted by one scanning the OED, for the only sense current for linguist was ` one who is skilled in the use of language, master of other tongues besides his own, 'the sense in which Shakespeare used it at the end of the 16th century.
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