1. a person who studies or specializes in typology, the classification of things according to their general type
2. a linguist who studies the structural features and patterns common to different languages
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The typologist organized the artifacts into distinct cultural categories.
• As a linguistic typologist, she compared word order patterns across fifty languages.
• The museum hired a typologist to classify their pottery collection.
• The typologist identified three main types of settlement patterns in the region.
• Her work as a typologist helped establish new frameworks for language comparison.
• The typologist’s research revealed surprising similarities between unrelated cultures.