grammarian

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gram=mar=i=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

grammarian, n. [Cf. F. grammairien.].

•  One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.  [1913 Webster]

  " “The term was used by the classic ancients as a term of honorable distinction for all who were considered learned in any art or faculty whatever.” Brande & C."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grammarian, n. an expert in grammar or linguistics; a philologist.

Etymology

ME f. OF gramarien

THESAURUS

grammarian

dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, semanticist, semasiologist

ROGET THESAURUS

grammarian

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.