How do you use Philologist in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like humanist, plus the exact meaning.
Philologist meaning
- A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
- A person devoted to general learning and literature.
- A person devoted to classical scholarship.
Synonyms of Philologist
Using Philologist
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies. | A person devoted to general learning and literature. | A person devoted to classical scholarship.
- Useful related words include: philologue, humanist.
- In the example corpus, philologist often appears in combinations such as: the philologist, and philologist, as philologist.
Context around Philologist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Philologist
- In this selection, "philologist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, danish, classical, orientalist, rasmus, leibniz and turned stand out and add context to how "philologist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a classical philologist before turning and and a philologist calling himself. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "philologist" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with philologist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Childe was a philologist turned archaeologist. (6 words)
Lindsay was an accomplished astronomer and philologist. (7 words)
He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. (12 words)
Some people have changed their name in order to make of it a palindrome (such as actors Robert Trebor and Steve Evets ), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver or the flamenco dancer Sara Baras ). (44 words)
Shortly before her death, the Italian philologist Maria Corti pointed out that, during his stay at the court of Alfonso X, Dante's mentor Brunetto Latini met Bonaventura de Siena, a Tuscan who had translated the Kitab al Miraj from Arabic into Latin. (43 words)
In a celebrated paper in modern times, the fantasy author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in his essay "On Fairy Stories" that the terms "fantasy" and "enchantment" are connected to not only ". (34 words)
Example sentences (17)
Philologist Leibniz the philologist was an avid student of languages, eagerly latching on to any information about vocabulary and grammar that came his way.
A person who pursues this kind of study is known as a philologist.
Childe was a philologist turned archaeologist.
Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask described what he vaguely called "Scythian" languages in 1834, which included Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Samoyedic, Eskimo, Caucasian, Basque and others.
He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
He was inspired by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars taught himself some Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish.
Humboldt's work as a philologist in Basque has had more extensive impact than his other work.
In a celebrated paper in modern times, the fantasy author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in his essay "On Fairy Stories" that the terms "fantasy" and "enchantment" are connected to not only ".
In the 1990s, a neopagan shamanist movement called aiyy yeurekhé was founded by the controversial journalist Ivan Ukhkhan and a philologist calling himself Téris.
Lindsay was an accomplished astronomer and philologist.
Other languages * In 2015 it was translated into Romanian for the first time by orientalist philologist Gheorghe Iorga.
Philologist Maurice Bloomfield further connected the pair with the two dogs of Yama in Vedic mythology, and saw them as a Germanic counterpart to a more general and widespread Indo-European " Cerberus "-theme.
Shortly before her death, the Italian philologist Maria Corti pointed out that, during his stay at the court of Alfonso X, Dante's mentor Brunetto Latini met Bonaventura de Siena, a Tuscan who had translated the Kitab al Miraj from Arabic into Latin.
Some people have changed their name in order to make of it a palindrome (such as actors Robert Trebor and Steve Evets ), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver or the flamenco dancer Sara Baras ).
Terminology The English philologist and ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English kippian, to spawn.
The philologist Hans Krahe related this toponym on a paleo-European basis *Ar-n-, derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *er-, "flow, move".
The true source of ethnolinguistics and the thinker who contributed most to the debate on the relationship between culture, language, and linguistic communities was the German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).
Common combinations with philologist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the philologist 3×
- and philologist 3×
- as philologist 2×
- danish philologist 2×
- philologist rasmus 2×