grammarian

[ gruh-mair-ee-uhn ]

noun

1. a specialist or expert in grammar.
2. a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.

grammarian

/ ɡrəˈmɛərɪən /

noun

1. a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
2. the author of a grammar

Word History and Origins

Origin of grammarian¹

1350–1400; Middle English gramarien < Old French gramairien. See grammar, -ian

Example Sentences

The grammarian Tyrannion supposedly had 30,000 of them; the physician Serenus Sammonicus is reputed to have had 60,000.

From The Daily Beast

What a nice grammarian a woman had need to be, who would live well with a husband inferior to her in understanding!

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This long passage has a good many difficulties of detail, for the grammarian and the textual critic.

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A woman-grammarian, who corrects her husband for speaking false Latin, which is called breaking Priscian's head.

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Pere Bouhours was a French grammarian, who had been justly accused of paying too scrupulous an attention to the minuti of letters.

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Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable.

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