Chomsky

[chom-skee]

noun

1. (Avram) Noam born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.

Chomsky

/ ˈtʃɒmskɪ /

noun

1. ( 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 His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

Other Word Forms

• Chomskyan noun

Example Sentences

An internet search of the most influential American political books of the last half-century will reveal such works as Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” or Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine.”

From Salon

He is the author of several books, and co-author with Noam Chomsky of "The Myth of American Idealism."

From Salon

More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," appeared in a Feb. 23, 1967, special issue of The New York Review of Books.

From Salon

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