Definition of "grammatist" in English

noun

1. (historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.

   • 1907 (Mar.), L. F. Anderson, "A Study of the Prototypes of the Modern Non-professional School among the Greeksand the Romans", The Pedagogical Seminary, 14(1): 1-38. The grammatist, apparently, taught literature in so far as it was read while the citharist taught the poetry which was usually sung.

2. A grammarian.