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View synonyms for grammarian

grammarian

[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a specialist or expert in grammar.
  2. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.


grammarian

/ ɡrəˈmɛərɪən /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
  2. the author of a grammar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grammarian1

1350–1400; Middle English gramarien < Old French gramairien. See grammar, -ian
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Example Sentences

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.

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