Definitions
a person who speaks more than one language
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin lingua (“language”) + -ist.
Used in a sentence
“The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.”
“I found that he could write and read English, but could not speak it, being like myself a bad linguist; so we had to use French as a medium of communication.”
“The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.”
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01“Language expert”8 letters
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