noun
Meaning 1
An expert in anthropology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
anthropologist
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social scientist
Narrower terms: archeologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, social anthropologist, cultural anthropologist, Benedict, Ruth Benedict, Ruth Fulton, Brinton, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Broca, Pierre-Paul Broca, Frazer, James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer, Heyerdahl, Thor Hyerdahl, Kroeber, Alfred Kroeber, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey, Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Mead, Margaret Mead, Montagu, Ashley Montagu, Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sapir, Edward Sapir
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English anthropology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English anthropologist From anthropology + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: antropoloog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Armenian: մարդաբան (mardaban) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Belarusian: антрапо́лаг (antrapólah) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Bulgarian: антрополо́г (antropológ) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Catalan: antropòleg — one who is versed in anthropology
- Catalan: antropòloga — one who is versed in anthropology
- Chinese Mandarin: 人類學家 /人类学家 (rénlèixuéjiā) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Czech: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Czech: antropoložka — one who is versed in anthropology
- Danish: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Dutch: antropoloog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Dutch: antropologe — one who is versed in anthropology
- Esperanto: antropologo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Esperanto: antropologino — one who is versed in anthropology
- Faroese: mannfrøðingur — one who is versed in anthropology
- Finnish: antropologi — one who is versed in anthropology
- French: anthropologue — one who is versed in anthropology
- Galician: antropólogo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Galician: antropóloga — one who is versed in anthropology
- German: Anthropologe — one who is versed in anthropology
- German: Anthropologin — one who is versed in anthropology
- Hungarian: antropológus — one who is versed in anthropology
- Icelandic: mannfræðingur — one who is versed in anthropology
- Ido: antropologo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Ido: antropologisto — one who is versed in anthropology
- Indonesian: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Irish: antraipeolaí — one who is versed in anthropology
- Italian: antropologo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Japanese: 人類学者 (jinruigakusha) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Latvian: antropologs — one who is versed in anthropology
- Latvian: antropoloģe — one who is versed in anthropology
- Norwegian Bokmål: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Norwegian Nynorsk: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Polish: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Polish: antropolożka — one who is versed in anthropology
- Portuguese: antropólogo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Portuguese: antropóloga — one who is versed in anthropology
- Romanian: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Romanian: antropologă — one who is versed in anthropology
- Russian: антропо́лог (antropólog) — one who is versed in anthropology
- Serbo-Croatian: антропо̀лог — one who is versed in anthropology
- Serbo-Croatian: antropòlog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Slovak: antropológ — one who is versed in anthropology
- Slovak: antropologička — one who is versed in anthropology
- Spanish: antropólogo — one who is versed in anthropology
- Spanish: antropóloga — one who is versed in anthropology
- Swahili: mwanaanthropolojia — one who is versed in anthropology
- Swedish: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Turkish: antropolog — one who is versed in anthropology
- Turkish: insan bilimci — one who is versed in anthropology
- Ukrainian: антропо́лог (antropóloh) — one who is versed in anthropology
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