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
Etymologies
- grammar + -ian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With all his faults as I see them, I can think of him only as worthy of being buried in some high place, to the strains of Sigfried's Funeral March, and can only say, with Browning of the dead "grammarian" --”
“Eccles.tom. xiv.p. 268.)] 22 A grammarian is named by”
“Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable.”
“The word "grammarian" was more widely inclusive than now, meaning one who devoted himself to general learning.”
“Who cares, she's a nobody ...... don't give this moron the attention she craves grammarian”
“Course, he's never claimed to be a grammarian ...”
Fish and Fritz -- finally, somebody down there gets it (Jack Bog's Blog)
“Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher.”
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“You ain't seen nothin yet. (aplologies to my grammarian friends).”
“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
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grammarian’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, Vespasian, languid, studied, judgment, dwindle, artifice, contribute, observe, sonorous, gladiator and 264 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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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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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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Nouns
genesis, keenness, stupor, sage, grammarian, eloquence, lingua franca, opulence, hedonist, litany
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JDCAce's Personality
Words that describe my personality.
skeptic, scientific, naturalist, atheist, grammarian, astronomer, logical, curious
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sound clever (innit)
epistemology, grammatology, mimesis, grammarian, obstruent, glottodidactics, taxonomy, solipsism, magnum opus, exegesis
Tweets
Looking for tweets for grammarian.

reesetee I was afraid to.
*looks over shoulder* Oct 24, 2007
vanishedone Okay, listed, albeit only in VanishedOne's Words.
Now I'll go and look at Caesar. Oct 24, 2007
uselessness Wait, this isn't listed yet? What the heck? Oct 24, 2007