grammarian
/ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/
grammarian noun: a person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
Noun
grammarian (plural grammarians)
- A person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
- Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
- The goal of a grammarian is to discover the morphemes and words within a language, and to discover how they combine in the grammar.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21
- Synonyms:
- grammatician, grammaticist
- A person who pedantically critiques the grammar of others' speech or writing, especially when unscientifically and misguidedly.
- They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
grammarian meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
grammarian in Hindi
- person who studies grammar
- शाब्दिक śābdik, वैयाकरणिक vaiyākarṇik
grammarian in Urdu
- person who studies grammar
- قواعدداں qavāyaddā̃
grammarian in Malayalam
- വ്യാകരണപണ്ഡിതൻ, വൈയാകരണൻ, ശബ്ദശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ
grammarian in Kannada
- grammarian
- ವೈಯಾಕರಣ vaiyākaraṇa
More languagesFewer languages
- grammarian in Sanskrit
- वैयाकरण vaiyākaraṇa, शाब्दिक śābdika, शाब्द śābda
- grammarian in Tagalog
- mambabalarila
- grammarian in Arabic
- نَحْوِيّ naḥwiyy
- grammarian in Persian
- نحوی nahvi
- grammarian in Vietnamese
- nhà ngữ pháp học
Examples of grammarian in a sentence
- Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.
- Frequently, catch phrases are not, in the grammarians' sense, phrases at all, but sentences.
- In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.
Synonyms of grammarian
Forms of grammarian
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Origin of grammarian
Inherited from Middle English gramarien, from Middle French gramarien, gramairien. Displaced native Old English stæfcræftiga.
Words formed from grammarian
Questions about grammarian
- What does grammarian mean?
- Grammarian means a person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
- What is grammarian in Hindi?
- Grammarian in Hindi is शाब्दिक (śābdik), वैयाकरणिक (vaiyākarṇik). See Grammarian meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is grammarian?
- Grammarian is a noun.
- How do you pronounce grammarian?
- Grammarian is pronounced /ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/.
- What is the plural of grammarian?
- The plural of grammarian is grammarians.
Words near grammarian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grammarian (page history and authors); grammarian (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ವೈಯಾಕರಣ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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