linguist
    n 1: a specialist in linguistics [syn: linguist, linguistic
         scientist]
    2: a person who speaks more than one language [syn: linguist,
       polyglot]

Linguist \Lin"guist\ (l[i^][ng]"gw[i^]st), n. [L. lingua tongue,
   speech, language: cf. F. linguiste.]
   1. A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.]
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            I'll dispute with him;
            He's a rare linguist.                 --J. Webster.
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   2. A person skilled in languages.
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            There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and
            Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age.
                                                  --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster] Linguistic