Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun linguist

2 senses of linguist

Sense 1
linguist, linguistic scientist -- (a specialist in linguistics)
       => scientist -- (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Sense 2
linguist, polyglot -- (a person who speaks more than one language)
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")