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grammarian

/gruh-mair-ee-uhn/US // grəˈmɛər i ən //UK // (ɡrəˈmɛərɪən) //

语法师,语法学家,语法学家,文法学家

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a specialist or expert in grammar.
    • : a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.

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Examples

  • The grammarian Tyrannion supposedly had 30,000 of them; the physician Serenus Sammonicus is reputed to have had 60,000.

  • What a nice grammarian a woman had need to be, who would live well with a husband inferior to her in understanding!

  • This long passage has a good many difficulties of detail, for the grammarian and the textual critic.

  • A woman-grammarian, who corrects her husband for speaking false Latin, which is called breaking Priscian's head.

  • Pere Bouhours was a French grammarian, who had been justly accused of paying too scrupulous an attention to the minuti of letters.

  • Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable.