Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is versed in philology. Also philologer, philologian, philologue.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One versed in philology.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
Examples
“He may have used the word philologist somewhat loosely on occasion.”
The Life of George Borrow
“In a move to grab your attention by confusing you, I'm actually not writing about the word philologist today, but rather an intriguing-looking word that may make you stop and grab your dictionary by the short bindings upon encountering it, "it" being today's "Take My Word for It," word:”
“During my brilliant interview, my philologist was a bit reticent.”
“FECHER: A philologist is a person who studies the origins and meanings of words.”
“Experience, therefore, is certainly an essential prerequisite for a philologist -- that is, the philologist must first of all be a man; for then only can he be productive as a philologist.”
We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8
“Lipsius (1547-1606) is known as a philologist and for his treatises on the military art of the Romans, on the Latin classics, and on the philosophy of the Stoics.”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“COPENHAGEN -- Tonight, Yoani Sánchez -- the world-renowned Cuban blogger and philologist -- will be honored here with the inaugural Freedom Award, in the amount of $50,000, by the independent Danish think tank, CEPOS.”
“They were both college professors, and though Jorgen, a classical philologist, worked like crazy to find a job at a U.S. university, he wasn't able to.”
The Washington Post: How to keep it together when the marriage goes long-distance
“Horne Tooke, John (1736 – 1812): a philologist and radical whose etymological work The Diversions of”
“Also linguistic comparisons with contemporary NHG are more or less impossible, as a few philologist-friends remind me from time to time.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Create a Constitutional Theory Out of This
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seanmeade we love words, plus, it was the profession of The Professor Tolkien Mar 26, 2007