Advertisement
Advertisement
grammarian
[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a specialist or expert in grammar.
- a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.
grammarian
/ ɡrəˈmɛərɪən /
noun
- a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
- the author of a grammar
Word History and Origins
Origin of grammarian1
Example Sentences
The grammarian Tyrannion supposedly had 30,000 of them; the physician Serenus Sammonicus is reputed to have had 60,000.
What a nice grammarian a woman had need to be, who would live well with a husband inferior to her in understanding!
This long passage has a good many difficulties of detail, for the grammarian and the textual critic.
A woman-grammarian, who corrects her husband for speaking false Latin, which is called breaking Priscian's head.
Pere Bouhours was a French grammarian, who had been justly accused of paying too scrupulous an attention to the minuti of letters.
Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse