Grammarian

Word GRAMMARIAN
Character 10
Hyphenation gram ma ri an
Pronunciations /ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/

Definitions and meanings of "Grammarian"

What do we mean by grammarian?

A specialist in grammar. noun

One versed in grammar or the structure of language; a philologist. noun

One who writes upon or teaches grammar. noun

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist. noun

One who writes on, or teaches, grammar. noun

A person who studies grammar noun

A linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax noun

A person who studies grammar.

A funny little word that you may hear your english teacher may use to imply that s/he is religious in regard to grammar. I've always taken it to mean that your grammar will be corrected without remorse. Urban Dictionary

A grammarian is a person who believes that they have some type of mastery over the English language. Most times, they are misguided in this belief and come across as an asshole. The grammarian is related (by marriage, not blood) to the grammar nazi. Urban Dictionary

That one person that ALWAYS corrects you hence the word grammarian Urban Dictionary

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The word "grammarian" in example sentences

With all his faults as I see them, I can think of him only as worthy of being buried in some high place, to the strains of Sigfried's Funeral March, and can only say, with Browning of the dead "grammarian" -- ❋ Unknown (1919)

Eccles.tom. xiv.p. 268.)] 22 A grammarian is named by ❋ Unknown (1206)

Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

The word "grammarian" was more widely inclusive than now, meaning one who devoted himself to general learning. ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

You ain't seen nothin yet. (aplologies to my grammarian friends). ❋ Unknown (2009)

To paraphrase Thomas Aquinas, beware the grammarian of one reference book – especially if that book is The Elements of Style (EoS) by Strunk, or Strunk and White. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or as the OED more briefly puts it, A petty or inferior grammarian. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then comes the fact-checker, the grammarian, and then, at the end, comes surrender, because it's never done. ❋ Christian Davenport (2011)

Who cares, she's a nobody ...... don't give this moron the attention she craves grammarian ❋ Unknown (2009)

People who say SET FOOT IN are momentarily confused and thus annoyed by people who say STEP FOOT IN, and the problem cries out for resolution long before the grammarian gets to it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You write “People who say SET FOOT IN are momentarily confused and thus annoyed by people who say STEP FOOT IN, and the problem cries out for resolution long before the grammarian gets to it.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Somewhat satisfactorily, the problem of “postera crescam laude” was already knotty in the second or third century, when in his Commentum in Horatium, the North African grammarian and editor Pomponius Porphyrio tagged it with the explanatory remark: “Eleganter, quia semper sunt, quibus haec elocutio noua sit et laudetur.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

'Course, he's never claimed to be a grammarian ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, if you wrote a sentence like “This airplane can fly you from Paris to New York in four hours”, a grammarian would tell you that you had to correct it to read something like “A pilot can fly you from Paris to New York in four hours with this plane”. ❋ M_francis (2009)

Bay wreaths being a spoil to victors, back when grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace was a librarian in Alexandria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your organisation or company needs an anal grammarian to obsess over everything you send out – to internal as well as external clients. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With sincere respect and in a spirit of merely grammarian zeal I gotta point out that the verb you needed was not “portray.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

My [english teacher] [swears] she's a [devout] Grammarian. ❋ Chris R (2006)

"I am a [grammarian] and have studied the ancient languages from Latin to [Romulan], [thusly], I have quite the command over the English language and a period does not go at the end of a sentence." ❋ Bobbert Smift (2015)

u [fuckin] grammarian ❋ Hi :p (2018)

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