grammarian

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scholar or specialist who studies and describes grammar

   The grammarian compared the syntax of several related languages.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who is especially concerned with rules of grammar, sometimes pedantically

   An amateur grammarian corrected every informal phrase in the conversation.

From Middle English gramarien, through Old French gramarien from Latin grammatica and Greek grammatikos ("of letters, grammatical").

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