ARCHEOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archeologist mean? 

• ARCHEOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun ARCHEOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture

  Familiarity information: ARCHEOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHEOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

archaeologist; archeologist

Hypernyms ("archeologist" is a kind of...):

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archeologist"):

Egyptologist (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)

paleographer; paleographist (an archeologist skilled in paleography)

pothunter (a nonprofessional archeologist)

Instance hyponyms:

Arthur Evans; Evans; Sir Arthur John Evans (British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941))

Heinrich Schliemann; Schliemann (German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890))

Homer A. Thompson; Homer Armstrong Thompson; Homer Thompson; Thompson (United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000))

Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler (Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976))

Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Winckelmann; Winckelmann (German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768))

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley; Sir Leonard Woolley; Woolley (English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960))

Derivation:

archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)

 Context examples 

The tomb was discovered by Egyptian archeologists and could boost Egypt's slowly recovering tourism industry.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you are an architect, historian, a dealer in rare letters and autographs, a museum curator, or archeologist, this month will find you winning your glory and making exceptional progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Are you an archeologist? This month may find you on a dig that you will always remember, one where you could turn up newsworthy items.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Capricorn also rules historical material, so if you are an archeologist, a museum curator of historical objects, or a producer on the History Channel or are working on a movie with a historical theme, you will be exceptionally busy.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)