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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person who speaks several languages fluently.
  2. n. A specialist in linguistics.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person skilled in the use of languages; one who can speak several languages.
  2. n. A student of language; a philologist.
  3. n. A master of language or talk; a ready converser or talker.
  4. n. An interpreter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who studies linguistics.
  2. n. A person skilled in languages.
  3. n. A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A master of the use of language; a talker.
  2. n. A person skilled in languages.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who speaks more than one language
  2. n. a specialist in linguistics

Etymologies

  1. From Latin lingua ("tongue") + -ist. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin lingua, language; see dn̥ghū- in Indo-European roots + -ist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • pterodactyl "Tree?" Sally said. "I fell out of a tree today. On a linguist."

    -- Connie Willis, "Blued Moon" May 21, 2008

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