Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialist in grammar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in grammar or the structure of language; a philologist.
- noun One who writes upon or teaches grammar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
- noun One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who studies
grammar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
Etymologies
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Examples
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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" --
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Eccles.tom. xiv.p. 268.)] 22 A grammarian is named by
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907
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The word "grammarian" was more widely inclusive than now, meaning one who devoted himself to general learning.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher.
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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You ain't seen nothin yet. (aplologies to my grammarian friends).
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Who cares, she's a nobody ...... don't give this moron the attention she craves grammarian
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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 2010
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'Course, he's never claimed to be a grammarian ...
Fish and Fritz -- finally, somebody down there gets it (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
uselessness commented on the word grammarian
Wait, this isn't listed yet? What the heck?
October 25, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word grammarian
Okay, listed, albeit only in VanishedOne's Words.
Now I'll go and look at Caesar.
October 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word grammarian
I was afraid to.
*looks over shoulder*
October 25, 2007