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Definition of Philologist
1. Noun. A humanist specializing in classical scholarship.
Generic synonyms: Humanist
Specialized synonyms: Frederick James Furnivall, Furnivall, Baron Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Baron Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Humboldt, Friedrich Max Muller, Max Muller, Muller, James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Murray, Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Murray, Rask, Rasmus Christian Rask, Skeat, Walter William Skeat, J.r.r. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien, Karl Adolph Verner, Verner
Derivative terms: Philology
Definition of Philologist
1. n. One versed in philology.
Definition of Philologist
1. Noun. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Philologist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Philologist
1. One versed in philology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Philologist
Literary usage of Philologist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"An eminent Bohemian critic, literary historian, and philologist, the rejuvenator
of his country's literature; ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"... Georges, is fa- excellent purpose which this volume is designed to serve, in
the higher institutions of learning and u ine closet of the philologist, ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1846)
"Ethnography and Philology ; by HORATIO HALE, AM, philologist of the Expedition.
1846. Large 4to. pp. 666. WE duly noticed the Narrative of our national ..."
4. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"So, after all we have heard, and truly heard of the diversity between all things
Semitic and all things Indo-European, there is now an Italian philologist ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... a Dutch philologist, celebrated for his learning, particularly in the Greek
and Roman languages, and for the new philological school which he founded, ..."
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