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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)play

  Familiarity information: ORTHOEPIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORTHOEPIST (noun)


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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