noun
Meaning 1
A person who studies meteorology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
meteorologist
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noun
Meaning 2
A weather forecaster.
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noun
Meaning 3
a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: specialist, specializer, specialiser
Narrower terms: weatherman, weather forecaster
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English meteorology 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 meteorologist From meteorology + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: օդերեւութաբան (ōderewutʻaban) — person who studies meteorology
- Catalan: meteoròleg — person who studies meteorology
- Czech: meteorolog — person who studies meteorology
- Dutch: weerkundige — person who studies meteorology
- Dutch: meteoroloog — person who studies meteorology
- Finnish: meteorologi — person who studies meteorology
- French: météorologue — person who studies meteorology
- French: météorologiste — person who studies meteorology
- German: Meteorologe — person who studies meteorology
- Hindi: मौसम विज्ञानी (mausam vijñānī) — person who studies meteorology
- Hungarian: meteorológus — person who studies meteorology
- Icelandic: veðurfræðingur — person who studies meteorology
- Italian: meteorologo — person who studies meteorology
- Japanese: 気象学者 — person who studies meteorology
- Norwegian: meteorolog — person who studies meteorology
- Polish: meteorolog — person who studies meteorology
- Portuguese: meteorologista — person who studies meteorology
- Russian: метеоро́лог (meteorólog) — person who studies meteorology
- Spanish: meteorólogo — person who studies meteorology
- Swedish: meteorolog — person who studies meteorology
- Armenian: օդերեւութաբան (ōderewutʻaban) — weather forecaster
- Dutch: weerpresentator — weather forecaster
- Dutch: weerpresentatrice — weather forecaster
- Dutch: weerman — weather forecaster
- Dutch: weervrouw — weather forecaster
- Dutch: weerkundige — weather forecaster
- Dutch: meteoroloog — weather forecaster
- Finnish: meteorologi — weather forecaster
- French: météorologue — weather forecaster
- French: météorologiste — weather forecaster
- German: Meteorologe — weather forecaster
- Russian: метеоро́лог (meteorólog) — weather forecaster
- Swedish: meteorolog — weather forecaster
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