noun
- Plural of phraseologist; scholars or specialists who study phrases, idioms, and phraseology in language.
Usage: academic; linguistics
Examples
- Phraseologists analyze how fixed expressions develop meaning over time.
- The conference brought together phraseologists from universities across Europe.
- Modern phraseologists use corpus linguistics to study common word combinations.
- Phraseologists have documented thousands of idioms in English.
- These phraseologists specialize in comparing phraseology across different languages.