linguisters
linguisters is the plural of linguister.
Meaning of linguister
Noun
linguister (plural linguisters)
- A native interpreter assisting Europeans in colonial contexts.
- […] the Portuguese very privatly gives information […] that it [the murder] was done by one of my people and by my order[;] this young man whom they accused was my linguister […]1666, letter from William Acworth, in Siam, to George Oxenden of the British East India Company, cited in John Anderson, English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century, London: Kegan Paul...
- A native agent facilitating European trade in East and Central Africa in colonial contexts.
- One day a linguister, a native commission agent, arrived in a trading canoe, and stated that […] a prince some way up the river […] had [said] […] that if I sent him five longs and five gallons of rum he would […] let my trade pass.1887, Richard Edward Dennett, chapter 4, in Seven Years Among the Fjort: Being and English Trader’s Experiences in the Congo District, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pages 80–81
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- What is linguisters the plural of?
- Linguisters is the plural of linguister.
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