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colinguist en · NOUN

Etymology

From co- + linguist.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of co-linguist.
   alt of co-linguist
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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