Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A specialist in grammar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One versed in grammar or the structure of language; a philologist.
- n. One who writes upon or teaches grammar.
Wiktionary
- n. a person who studies grammar
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
- n. One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
Examples
“Eccles.tom. xiv.p. 268.)] 22 A grammarian is named by”
“Panini, the famous grammarian assigned to the fourth century B.C.E., if not earlier, attests to Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra republics and Alexander had to defeat both a Brahmana and a Shudra republic in the course of his conquest.”
The Huffington Post: Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity
“Then comes the fact-checker, the grammarian, and then, at the end, comes surrender, because it's never done.”
The Washington Post: Story pick: Coughing up copy, one hairball at a time
“Few attributes of a review are less attractive than pedantry, and this reviewer doesn't want to play grammarian throughout, but there are so many lapses that I need to growl a little.”
“To paraphrase Thomas Aquinas, beware the grammarian of one reference book – especially if that book is The Elements of Style (EoS) by Strunk, or Strunk and White.”
“Or as the OED more briefly puts it, A petty or inferior grammarian.”
“Bay wreaths being a spoil to victors, back when grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace was a librarian in Alexandria.”
“Recent exemplifications of false philology” « Motivated Grammar
“People who say SET FOOT IN are momentarily confused and thus annoyed by people who say STEP FOOT IN, and the problem cries out for resolution long before the grammarian gets to it.”
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
“You write “People who say SET FOOT IN are momentarily confused and thus annoyed by people who say STEP FOOT IN, and the problem cries out for resolution long before the grammarian gets to it.””
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
“Who cares, she's a nobody ...... don't give this moron the attention she craves grammarian”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grammarian’.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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sound clever (innit)
epistemology, grammatology, mimesis, grammarian, obstruent, glottodidactics, taxonomy, solipsism, magnum opus, exegesis
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JDCAce's Personality
Words that describe my personality.
skeptic, scientific, naturalist, atheist, grammarian, astronomer, logical, curious
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Nouns
genesis, keenness, stupor, sage, grammarian, eloquence, lingua franca, opulence, hedonist, litany
*looks over shoulder* Oct 24, 2007
Now I'll go and look at Caesar. Oct 24, 2007