dialectician

American  

[dahy-uh-lek-tish-uhn] / ˌdaɪ ə lɛkˈtɪʃ ən /

noun

1. a person skilled in dialectic; logician.

2. a dialectologist.

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Etymology

Origin of dialectician

First recorded in 1685–95; from French dialecticien, from Latin dialectic(us) “dialectic” + French -ien adjective suffix; dialectic, -ian

Example Sentences

Rockwell is too cleareyed is to be nostalgic for the old, grittier, grimier New York; she’s also too much of a dialectician.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Then two hours at home with a dialectician.

From Washington Times • Jan. 15, 2015

In many ways you can look at pop in 2014 as a kind of answer song, or what a Marxist dialectician might call an antithesis, to pop in 2013.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2014

Although Nikita Khrushchev suddenly discovered urgent business in Kiev, the Kremlin was stiffly correct about it all, sent out its chief dialectician, lanky, austere Mikhail Suslov, to meet the visitors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Socrates was an Athenian, a philosopher, an ugly man, an acute dialectician, etc.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William