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semanticist

American  
[si-man-tis-ist] / sɪˈmæn tɪs ɪst /

noun

semanticists plural
  1. an expert or specialist in semantics.


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A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College.

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For a summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease."

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The Senate The political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah.

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"She and Mrs. Wright were like two empresses in the same empire," the semanticist and former U.S.

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It isn't the kind of a job a Literate semanticist would do, but it's all honest Illiterate thinking, in Illiterate language.

From Null-ABC by Dongen, H. R. van

Slidell, La. Sir: No doubt there will be a spate of discussion by semanticists as well as theologians about the morning-after pill.

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The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats, exploring the precise meaning of such terms, widely used by the Russians on Berlin, as "access." "free city" and "guarantees."

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A portion of what Farb says has been said by the old semanticists and, in fact, by such commentators on the vagary of words as Lewis Carroll.

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