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# philologist

noun (philologists)

«philologist» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A philologist is a person who studies how languages developed and how words changed over time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x1)
- A philologist can tell how a word changed across many years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x2)
- My aunt is a philologist who loves old languages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «philologist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«philologist» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/philologist.html) on Mova free.