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Definition of "onomastician" []

  • A person who studies onomastics (noun)

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Use "onomastician" in a sentence
  • "Grant Smith is an onomastician at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, who studies the branch of linguistics dedicated to proper names."
  • "“The choices of African-American mothers are ignored,” writes Sol Steinmetz, part-time onomastician in New Rochelle, New York, “despite the fact that in the past thirty years the most unconventional, counter-establishment baby names have been coined by black moms.”"
  • "To make a long story short, Dunkling is an onomasiologist or onomastician, and president of the Names Society, a U.K."