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# philologist

«philologist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who studies how languages developed and how…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (philologists)

### meaning for a pupil

A philologist is a person who studies how languages developed and how words changed over time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a clever person who traces where a word came from, such as an old root meaning "to eat"

### examples

- Some philologists study old words to learn where they came from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x1)
- A philologist can tell how a word changed across many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x2)
- My aunt is a philologist who loves old languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «philologist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/philologist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.