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philologist

/fi-lol-uh-jist/US // fɪˈlɒl ə dʒɪst //

语言学家,语文学家,文字学家,语言学家

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who specializes in philology, the study of literary texts and written records: An interdisciplinary collaboration between philologists, chemists, and computer scientists is yielding new insights about these medieval manuscripts, all written in different languages or scripts, and most in poor condition.
    • : a person who specializes in linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics:The origin of modern historical linguistics is often traced back to Sir William Jones, the English philologist who, in 1782, observed the genetic relationship between Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin.

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Examples

  • John Pickering, an eminent American philologist, died at Boston, aged 60.

  • And why should not a philologist be able to answer questions acutely?

  • The professor, a distinguished philologist, was worried, and he looked it.

  • A great but careless linguist, Borrow was assuredly no philologist.

  • These are of so remarkable a type as to have puzzled every philologist and paleographer who has attempted their decipherment.