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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It beats jogging," insists Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, the tam-o'-shantered semanticist and college president turned junior Senator from California.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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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With the reactions of a trained semanticist he relaxed instead of tensing up with fear.

From The Deadly Daughters by Irving Novick

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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