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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 evolutionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EVOLUTIONIST (noun)


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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