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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in philology. Also philologer, philologian, philologue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in philology.

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  • noun A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

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  • noun a humanist specializing in classical scholarship

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  • we love words, plus, it was the profession of The Professor Tolkien

    March 26, 2007