Lĭn'guis't, n.

(lĭn'gwist), n. [Fr. linguiste, It. & Sp. linguista, from Lat. lingua, tongue, speech, language.] 1. A master of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages;—usually applied to a person well versed in the languages taught in colleges,—Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.