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Oceanicists

Oceanicists is the plural of Oceanicist.

Meaning of Oceanicist

Noun

Oceanicist (plural Oceanicists)

  1. A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.
    • Unergative verbs, called Actor subject verbs by Oceanicists, have an underived subject, that is one that is a subject at all levels of syntactic representation.2003, Bethwyn Evans, A Study of Valency-Changing Devices in Proto Oceanic, page 32

Questions about Oceanicists

What is Oceanicists the plural of?
Oceanicists is the plural of Oceanicist.

Words near Oceanicists in the dictionary

  1. Oceanica
  2. oceanically
  3. Oceanican
  4. Oceanicans
  5. Oceanicist
  6. Oceanicists
  7. oceanicity
  8. Oceanid
  9. Oceanides
  10. Oceanids
  11. oceanite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Oceanicists (page history and authors); Oceanicist (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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