ETHNOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethnologist mean? 

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

1. an anthropologist who studies ethnology

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHNOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies ethnology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Instance hyponyms:

Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen; Rasmussen (Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933))

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Schoolcraft (United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864))

Derivation:

ethnology (the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics)