Chomsky

[chom-skee]

noun

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

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For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary
David Masciotra
September 28, 2014
The rest of the essays and lectures in The Masters of Mankind show how Chomsky insists on breaking all the rules.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary
David Masciotra
September 28, 2014
The closing lecture also presents questions that Chomsky never answers—mainly one of alternatives.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary
David Masciotra
September 28, 2014
When was the first time you heard about Chomsky, and what did you hear?
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?
Jimmy So
November 20, 2013
But he knows that he is just a dawdler compared to Chomsky, the great big mindbender.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?
Jimmy So
November 20, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for chomsky

Chomsky

noun

(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 His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield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 FormsChomskyan or Chomskyite, noun, adjective

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