Esperantist

[es-per-ahnt-ist, -ant-ist]

noun

1. a person who is skilled or fluent in Esperanto or who promotes its use as a lingua franca.

adjective

1. promoting the use of Esperanto as a lingua franca.

Example Sentences

A French Esperantist, a lawyer named Alfred Michaux, described the committee’s reaction: “One can hardly grasp the wonderment and scandal of these French intellectuals, with their Cartesian and rational spirit, representatives of lay universities and supporters of secular government, accustomed to and identified with freethinking and atheism, when they heard this flaming prayer.”

From The New Yorker

“All other ideals or hopes tied with Esperantism by any Esperantist is his or her purely private affair.”

From The New Yorker

Schor, trading improvisations with another Esperantist, comes up with elmuri—“to take something out of a wall”—for getting cash from an A.T.M.

From The New Yorker

Among their number was George Soros, the son of a prominent Hungarian lawyer who had helped found an Esperantist literary journal in Budapest.

From The New Yorker

Schor quotes the Spanish Esperantist Jorge Camacho: “Esperanto continues to give me something . . . which I don’t find anywhere else, an irrational sense of directly belonging to the world.”

From The New Yorker