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EVOLUTIONIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evolutionist mean?
• EVOLUTIONIST (noun)
The noun EVOLUTIONIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who believes in organic evolution
Familiarity information: EVOLUTIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who believes in organic evolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("evolutionist" is a kind of...):
believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)
Context examples
Do you know, he said at last, I've had that same criticism passed on me once before—by a very great man, a scientist and evolutionist, Joseph Le Conte.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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