colinguist

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A form of co-linguist — One who shares a language with someone.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nouncolinguist (plural colinguists)

plural colinguists

  1. alternativeAlternative form of co-linguist.

    After much cogitation, they determine that even making free with possible worlds would not crush this belief, whether their own, or their colinguist's of whatever rank or station.

    2003, John Woods, Paradox and Paraconsistency, page 303
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    The poverty of the Telengana region contrasted with the relative affluence of the Nizam and Hyderabad City; the absence of colinguists in the state administration further reminded Telugu speakers of their inferior status.

    1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion, page 254

    Atlantic ethnicities were specifically negotiated responses to Atlantic circumstances; sometimes one's coreligionists and colinguists were the most advantageous group through which to organize—but not always, or even often, given the radical dispersal and isolation of the individuals captured in Africa.

    2015, Joseph C. Miller, The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, page 195

Origin

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APA

colinguist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colinguist

MLA

“colinguist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colinguist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colinguist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colinguist.

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