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Noun linguist has 2 senses
  1. linguist, linguistic scientist - a specialist in linguistics
    --1 is a kind of scientist, man of science
    --1 has particulars:
     computational linguist; grammarian, syntactician; Hebraist; lexicographer, lexicologist; neurolinguist; phonetician; phonologist; psycholinguist; semanticist, semiotician; sociolinguist; Bloomfield, Leonard Bloomfield; Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, A. Noam Chomsky; Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth; Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm; Jakobson, Roman Jakobson, Roman Osipovich Jakobson; Jespersen, Otto Jespersen, Jens Otto Harry Jespersen; Sapir, Edward Sapir
  2. linguist, polyglot - a person who speaks more than one language
    --2 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --2 has particulars:
     bilingual; translator, transcriber; de Saussure, Ferdinand de Saussure, Saussure; Greenberg, Joseph Greenberg
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