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philologist
  1. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
  2. A person devoted to general learning and literature.
  3. A person devoted to classical scholarship.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “You were a beautiful but desperate Polish philologist carrying a large ray gun through the city streets.”
      “I am a philologist of the Athens University, specialising in Cypriot linguistics and literature.”
      “Consequently he became in turn a classical philologist, a Byzantinist, and a neohellenist.”
philology
  1. (linguistics) The humanistic study of historical linguistics.
  2. (philosophy) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking..
  3. (culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.
  4. Examples:
    1. “One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology.”
      “Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University.”
      “For the modesty of philosophers has tempered the names given to philology, philosophy and philocaly.”
philologaster
  1. (rare) An inferior philologist.
philologer
  1. (archaic) A philologist.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry.”
      “He was noted for the correctness of his information, as a grammarian and a philologer.”
      “Since the early 1930s, he proved to everyone to be a gifted writer, translator, linguist as well as a brilliant ethnographer, philologer, and teacher.”
philologue
philologian
  1. A philologist.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “My training as a seminarian at Concordia and as a doctoral student at Harvard was as a historian or as a philologian.”
      “The anecdotes which have been recorded of him show that he was something of an archaeologist, and something of a philologian.”
      “He was also a prominent member of the philologian Society, of which he was afterwards elected president.”
philologians
  1. plural of philologian
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The philologians have all accepted with an excess of good faith the view that vulgar languages meanings were fixed by convention.”
philologists
  1. plural of philologist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These paradigms will be of as much interest to philologists and ethnolinguists as they may be to ornithologists.”
      “I want to suggest that this is in fact a rather useful rule of thumb for linguists and philologists.”
      “But it is the rare transitive use of the verb, with the action sent on to an object, that catches the attention of philologists.”
philologers
philologues
  1. plural of philologue
philologies
  1. plural of philology
  2. Examples:
    1. “A good typologist, on the other hand, will also show thorough expertise in a number of individual philologies.”
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