Definition of Sinologist

1. Noun. A student of Chinese history and language and culture.

Generic synonyms: Bookman, Scholar, Scholarly Person, Student
Derivative terms: Sinology

Definition of Sinologist

1. n. A sinologue.

Definition of Sinologist

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of sinologist) ¹

2. Noun. A student or expert in Sinology. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sinologist

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinologist

Sinitic
Sinitic language
Sinkiang
Sinn Fein
Sinn Féin
Sinningia
Sinningia speciosa
Sino-
Sino-Japanese
Sino-Japanese War
Sino-Korean
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan language
Sino-Vietnamese
Sinological
Sinologist (current term)
Sinology
Sinophile
Sinophiles
Sinophilia
Sinophobe
Sinophobia
Sinophone
Sinophones
Sinornis
Sint Maarten
Sinti
Siobhan
Sion
Siouan

Literary usage of Sinologist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the papal curia are: the three highest officials of the Camera Apostólica (vice-camerlengo, general auditor, and treas- The famous English sinologist, ..."

2. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1880)
"Section, Chinese, Indo- Chinese, and Japanese: President, Legge, Sinologist, English; Vice-Presidents, Gabelentz, Sinologist, German, and Andreozzi, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The famous English sinologist, James Legge, calls It "an invaluable work, of which it could hardly be possible to speak in too high terms". ..."

4. China and Religion by Edward Harper Parker (1905)
"It does not, however, appear to me to matter much whether a man is a blacksmith or a sinologist, so long as he discovers the means and possesses the ..."

5. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"Hans Bethge, who is not a sinologist, and who did not know the Chinese language, has not translated his Germanic verses directly from the Chinese. ..."

6. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason: And On the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer (1891)
"We find the learned sinologist Morrison too * not less desirous to discover traces of a God in the Chinese dogmas and ready to put the most favourable ..."

7. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and on the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer (1907)
"We find the learned sinologist Morrison too' not less desirous to discover traces of a God in the Chinese dogmas and ready to put the most favourable ..."

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