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Saussure
[ French soh-syr ]
noun
- Fer·di·nand de [fe, r, -dee-, nahn, d, uh], 1857–1913, Swiss linguist.
Saussure
/ sosyr /
noun
- SaussureFerdinand de18571913MSwissLANGUAGE: linguistWRITING: structuralist Ferdinand de (fɛrdinɑ̃ də). 1857–1913, Swiss linguist. He pioneered structuralism in linguistics and the separation of scientific language description from historical philological studies
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Derived Forms
- Sausˈsurean, adjectivenoun
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Example Sentences
Saussure made similar experiments, and observed that the quantity of water exhaled by a sunflower amounted to about 220 lb.
Saussure has also observed that the quantity of ash diminishes in certain plants when the seed has ripened.
A substance noticed by Saussure in starch-paste, when long kept.
De Saussure suffered considerably, and a raging thirst added to his discomfort.
Here, as in a hundred other places, I sought in the fog for the vesicles of De Saussure, but failed to find them.
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