philologist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: phi=lol=o=gist

CIDE DICTIONARY

philologist, n. 

 One versed in philology.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

philologist

academician, bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, genius, giant of learning, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, semanticist, semasiologist, student, walking encyclopedia

ROGET THESAURUS

philologist

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.