Chomsky

[ chom-skee ]

noun

1. (Avram) Noam [nohm, noh, -, uh, m], born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.

Chomsky

/ ˈtʃɒmskɪ /

noun

1. Chomsky(Avram) Noam1928MUSLANGUAGE: linguistPOLITICS: political critic ( Avram ) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

Derived Forms

• ˈChomskyan, nounadjective

Example Sentences

There has never been a parallel desire to identify a “responsible left,” meaning left-wing critics of liberalism such as Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin or Gore Vidal.

From Salon

Starting in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at M.I.T., argued that we use language for reasoning and other forms of thought.

From New York Times

In The New York Review of Books in 1970, Noam Chomsky, always partial to engaged reporting, called Mr. Allman “one of the most knowledgeable and enterprising of the American correspondents now in Cambodia.”

From New York Times

As oxymorons go, it’s the operatic equivalent to Noam Chomsky’s famous syntactic puzzle “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

From New York Times

“Deploring the crimes of others often gives us a nice warm feeling: we are good people, so different from those bad people,” Noam Chomsky has observed.

From Salon