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classicist
[ klas-uh-sist ]
noun
- an adherent of classicism in literature or art ( romanticist ).
- an authority on the classics; a classical scholar.
- a person who advocates study of the ancient Greek and Roman classics.
classicist
/ ˈklæsɪkəlɪst; ˈklæsɪsɪst /
noun
- a student of ancient Latin and Greek
- a person who advocates the study of ancient Latin and Greek
- an adherent of classicism in literature or art
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Derived Forms
- ˌclassiˈcistic, adjective
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Other Words From
- anti·classi·cal·ist noun adjective
- anti·classi·cist noun adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of classicist1
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Example Sentences
Modern classicists are blowing up traditional notions about ancient narratives and sparking renewed interest in the mythological women whose dramas often play out in the shadows of their male counterparts.
An Oxford-trained classicist, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, a post filled by several future premiers.
Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle.
Classicist James Romm writes that we have replaced head-to-head competition with collaboration and self-expression.
Waiting for the Barbarians By Daniel Mendelsohn A master classicist takes on subjects from the ‘Iliad’ to ‘Avatar.’
Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
He is a sentimental Classicist, and his subjects the antithesis of the Grco-Roman ideal to which he does homage in his technique.
But though he was thus essentially a classicist, a mere classicist he was not.
In his study of men of science Ostwald has introduced the distinction of classicist and romanticist.
The classicist keeps to one line of thought and develops it by himself logically and completely.
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