# philologist

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #85,644

## Definitions
1. A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
2. A person devoted to general learning and literature.
3. A person devoted to classical scholarship.

## Etymology
From philology + -ist.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/philologist