phonetician

Noun

Meaning

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

polyglot linguist philologist lexicographer grammarian lexicologist etymologist dialectician glossarist paleographer orthoepist definer phonologist glossographer wordsmith
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Antonyms

monoglot

Hypernyms

linguist linguistic scientist

Hyponyms

transcriber

Examples

A rival and former student of Higgins, a Hungarian phonetician named Zoltan Karpathy, is employed by the hostess to discover Eliza's origins through her speech. Source: Internet

David Abercrombie, a phonetician, takes a different view of the limerick, and one which seems to accord better with the form. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

phonetic unit phonetical phonetically phoneticise phoneticism phoneticist