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logician

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/
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  • rhymes with -ɪʃən
  • CMU ARPABET: L OW0 JH IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person who studies or teaches logic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • “To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are.” ― “The Greek Interpreter”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a person skilled at symbolic logic

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: logistician

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: expert

Narrower terms: dialectician, syllogist, syllogizer, syllogiser, symbolic logician, Jevons, William Stanley Jevons, Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce, Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine, Russell, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, Venn, John Venn

History

Etymology

From Middle English logicien, logissian, from Old French logicien. Equivalent to logic + -ian.

Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَنْطِقِيّ (manṭiqiyy) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Armenian: տրամաբան (tramaban) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 論理學者 /论理学者 (lùnlǐ xuézhě) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 邏輯學家 /逻辑学家 (luójí xuéjiā) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Czech: logik — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Dutch: logicus — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Estonian: loogik — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Finnish: loogikko — person who studies or teaches logic
  • French: logicien — person who studies or teaches logic
  • French: logicienne — person who studies or teaches logic
  • German: Logiker — person who studies or teaches logic
  • German: Logikerin — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Greek: λογικολόγος (logikológos) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Hindi: तार्किक (tārkik) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Japanese: 論理学者 (ronri gakusha) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Korean: 논리 학자 (nolli hakja) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Macedonian: логичар (logičar) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Macedonian: логичарка (logičarka) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Norwegian Bokmål: logiker — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: logikar — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Polish: logik — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Portuguese: lógico — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Romanian: logician — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Romanian: logiciană — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Russian: ло́гик (lógik) — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Serbo-Croatian: lògičār — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Serbo-Croatian: lògičārka — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Slovak: logik — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Slovak: logička — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Spanish: lógico — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Spanish: lógica — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Swedish: logiker — person who studies or teaches logic
  • Telugu: తార్కికుడు (tārkikuḍu) — person who studies or teaches logic