Glossologist

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who defines and explains terms; one versed in glossology.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who writes glosses or compiles glossaries.
  • n. A philologist; one versed in or engaged in the study of glossology. Also glottologist.
  • Word Usage
    "But the eventual success of linguist over glossologist would not have been easily predicted by one scanning the OED, for the only sense current for linguist was ` one who is skilled in the use of language, master of other tongues besides his own, 'the sense in which Shakespeare used it at the end of the 16th century."