noun
Meaning 1
One who studies or practices zoology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
zoologist
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: /zəʊˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
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US: /zoʊˈɑləd͡ʒɪst/
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nonstandard: /zuːˈɒlədʒɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: animal scientist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: biologist, life scientist
Narrower terms: entomologist, bugologist, bug-hunter, ethologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, malacologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, bird watcher, protozoologist, Frisch, Karl von Frisch, Goodall, Jane Goodall, Kinsey, Alfred Charles Kinsey, Lorenz, Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, Tinbergen, Nikolaas Tinbergen
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English zoology 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 zoologist From zoology + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: կենդանաբան (kendanaban) — one who studies zoology
- Bulgarian: зоолог (zoolog) — one who studies zoology
- Catalan: zoòleg — one who studies zoology
- Chinese Mandarin: 動物學家 /动物学家 (dòngwùxuéjiā) — one who studies zoology
- Czech: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Danish: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Dutch: zoöloog — one who studies zoology
- Esperanto: zoologo — one who studies zoology
- Estonian: zooloog — one who studies zoology
- Finnish: eläintieteilijä — one who studies zoology
- French: zoologiste — one who studies zoology
- French: zoologue — one who studies zoology
- Galician: zoólogo — one who studies zoology
- Galician: zoóloga — one who studies zoology
- German: Zoologe — one who studies zoology
- German: Zoologin — one who studies zoology
- Hungarian: zoológus — one who studies zoology
- Ido: zoologiisto — one who studies zoology
- Italian: zoologo — one who studies zoology
- Italian: zoologa — one who studies zoology
- Japanese: 動物学者 (dōbutsugakusha) — one who studies zoology
- Latvian: zoologs — one who studies zoology
- Latvian: zooloģe — one who studies zoology
- Lithuanian: zoologas — one who studies zoology
- Lithuanian: zoologė — one who studies zoology
- Macedonian: зооло́г (zoológ) — one who studies zoology
- Māori: kaimātai kararehe — one who studies zoology
- Norwegian Bokmål: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Norwegian Nynorsk: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologist — one who studies zoology
- Polish: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Portuguese: zoologista — one who studies zoology
- Portuguese: zoólogo — one who studies zoology
- Portuguese: zoóloga — one who studies zoology
- Romanian: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Romanian: zoologă — one who studies zoology
- Russian: зоо́лог (zoólog) — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: зоо̀лог — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: зооло̀гица — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: зооло̀гиња — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: zoòlog — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: zoològica — one who studies zoology
- Serbo-Croatian: zoològinja — one who studies zoology
- Slovak: zoológ — one who studies zoology
- Slovak: zoologička — one who studies zoology
- Spanish: zoólogo — one who studies zoology
- Spanish: zoóloga — one who studies zoology
- Swedish: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Turkish: zoolog — one who studies zoology
- Vietnamese: nhà động vật học — one who studies zoology
- Welsh: swolegydd — one who studies zoology
- Welsh: söolegydd — one who studies zoology
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