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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
linguist/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/

▶noun

1 a person skilled in foreign languages.

2 a person who studies linguistics.

– origin C16: from L. lingua ‘language’ + -ist.

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