philologist

«philologist» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who studies how languages developed and how… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (philologists)

meaning for a pupil

A philologist is a person who studies how languages developed and how words changed over time. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a clever person who traces where a word came from, such as an old root meaning "to eat"

examples

• Some philologists study old words to learn where they came from. tree →
• A philologist can tell how a word changed across many years. tree →
• My aunt is a philologist who loves old languages. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «philologist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.