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A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies linguistics.
Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows a lot of languages), or a grammarian, but these two uses of the word are distinct.
The word linguistician is also used by some people to refer to one who studies linguistics, in order to avoid this ambiguity, although this word is rare, and generally disliked by linguists.