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ORTHOEPIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orthoepist mean?
• ORTHOEPIST (noun)
The noun ORTHOEPIST has 1 sense:
1. a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)
Familiarity information: ORTHOEPIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("orthoepist" is a kind of...):
phonologist (a specialist in phonology)
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