paleographer

paleographer — noun

1. a scholar who studies very old handwritten documents to work out when they were

1.名詞C2
釋義

a scholar who studies very old handwritten documents to work out when they were written, who wrote them, and what the letters and shapes mean.

例句

Dr. Tanaka, a paleographer at Kyoto University, dated the old diary to the 1300s.

appositive: a paleographer at [institution]

The museum hired a paleographer to read faded letters on the medieval parchment.

collocation: hire / consult a paleographer

同義詞
  • manuscript scholar

    broader; covers the whole study of handwritten books, not only the script itself

  • codicologist

    focuses on the physical book (binding, paper, layout) rather than the handwriting

  • epigrapher

    studies writing carved into stone or metal, not handwriting on paper or parchment

文法句型

a paleographer of [period/region]

用法筆記

Subject of the noun is almost always an academic or museum professional; the noun itself is countable and often appears with an institutional descriptor (at the British Library, from Oxford, at a regional archive).

常見錯誤

❌My grandmother is a paleographer because she has very old letters at home.
✅My grandmother collects very old letters at home.
💡being a paleographer requires academic training, not just owning old papers.
❌The paleographer dug up some pottery near the river.
✅The archaeologist dug up some pottery near the river.
💡paleographers study old writing on documents, not buried objects.