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linguicists

linguicists is the plural of linguicist.

Meaning of linguicist

Noun

linguicist (plural linguicists)

  1. One who discriminates on the basis of language.
    • Many Western linguicists may never have experienced cross-linguistic interactional reciprocity. Not experiencing situations with equal relations between languages, and always being linguistically unthreatened my dull sensitivity to language issues.1989, Noel Broadbent, Nordic Perspectives on Arctic Cultural and Political Ecology, page 95
  2. (dated) One who studies language; a linguist.
    • Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists.128, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics - Issue 8, page 1955

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Questions about linguicists

What is linguicists the plural of?
Linguicists is the plural of linguicist.

Words near linguicists in the dictionary

  1. linguicidal
  2. linguicide
  3. linguicism
  4. linguicisms
  5. linguicist
  6. linguicists
  7. linguidental
  8. linguidentals
  9. linguiform
  10. linguine
  11. linguines

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