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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: lingua; LINGUAL

linguist

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics, Languages
lin‧guist [countable]
1 someone who is good at foreign languages, especially someone who speaks several
2SL someone who studies or teaches linguistics
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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