Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sinclairian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sin-clairi-an
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.

Example Sentences

"Romer (2008) uses a Sinclairian approach to corpus analysis in order to identify positive and negative evaluations in texts such as book reviews: how can we find out quickly and reliably (and preferably automatically, by computer program) whether a reviewer thinks a book is worth bothering with?"

Etymology

From Sinclair + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Sinclair

Inflected Forms

more Sinclairian (comparative) most Sinclairian (superlative)

Questions

What does sinclairian mean?: Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
Where does sinclairian come from?: From Sinclair + -ian.

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