classicist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: clas=si=cist

CIDE DICTIONARY

classicist, n. 

 One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

classicist

Jonathan Oldbuck, Miniver Cheevy, Pre-Raphaelite, academician, antiquarian, antiquary, antique collector, antique dealer, antique-car collector, archaeologist, archaist, bookman, clerk, colossus of knowledge, dryasdust, genius, giant of learning, humanist, laudator temporis acti, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, medievalist, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, plain stylist, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, purist, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia