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geologist

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /dʒiˈɒlədʒɪst/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/
  • CMU ARPABET: JH IY0 AA1 L AH0 JH AH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a specialist in geology

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: scientist

Narrower terms: geophysicist, hydrologist, petroleum geologist, oil geologist, Holmes, Arthur Holmes, Hutton, James Hutton, Mantell, Gideon Algernon Mantell, Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English geology 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 geologist From geology + -ist.

Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جِيُولُوجِيّ (jiyūlūjiyy) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Armenian: երկրաբան (erkraban) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Asturian: xeólogu — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Asturian: xeóloga — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Basque: geologo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Belarusian: гео́лаг (hjeólah) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Bulgarian: геоло́г (geológ) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Bulgarian: геоло́жка (geolóžka) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Catalan: geòleg — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Catalan: geòloga — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地質學家 /地质学家 (dìzhíxuéjiā) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地質學者 /地质学者 (dìzhíxuézhě) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Czech: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Czech: geoložka — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Danish: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Dutch: geoloog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Dutch: geologe — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Dutch: aardkundige — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Esperanto: geologo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Estonian: geoloog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Finnish: geologi — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • French: géologue — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Galician: xeólogo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Galician: xeóloga — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Georgian: გეოლოგი (geologi) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • German: Geologe — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • German: Geologin — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Greek: γεωλόγος (geológos) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Hebrew: גאולוג (geológ) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Hebrew: גאולוגית (geologít) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Hindi: भूवैज्ञानिक (bhūvaijñānik) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Hungarian: geológus — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Ido: geologo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Italian: geologo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Italian: geologa — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Japanese: 地質学者 (chishitsugakusha) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Korean: 지질학자 (jijilhakja) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Central Kurdish: زەویناس (zewînas) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Latin: geologista — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Latin: geologistus — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Latvian: ģeologs — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Latvian: ģeoloģe — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Macedonian: геоло́г (geológ) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Norwegian Bokmål: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Occitan: geològ — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Polish: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Polish: geolożka — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Portuguese: geólogo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Romanian: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Russian: гео́лог (geólog) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Serbo-Croatian: гео̀лог — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Serbo-Croatian: геологица — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Serbo-Croatian: geòlog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Serbo-Croatian: geologica — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Slovak: geológ — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Slovak: geologička — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Slovene: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Slovene: geologinja — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Spanish: geólogo — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Spanish: geóloga — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Swahili: mwanajiolojia — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Swedish: geolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Thai: นักธรณีวิทยา (nák-tɔɔ-rá-nii-wít-tá-yaa) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Tibetan: ས་ཁམས་རག་པ་བ (sa khams rag pa ba) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Tibetan: ས་གཤིས་རིག་པ་མཁས་པ (sa gshis rig pa mkhas pa) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Tibetan: ས་གཤིས་དཔྱད་རིག་མཁས་པ (sa gshis dpyad rig mkhas pa) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Turkish: jeolog — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Ukrainian: гео́лог (heóloh) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Ukrainian: геологи́ня (heolohýnja) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Vietnamese: nhà địa chất — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Welsh: daearegwr — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Welsh: daearegwres — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Yiddish: געאָלאָג (geolog) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
  • Yiddish: געאָלאָגין (geologin) — person whose occupation specializes in geology
Real reading context

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