METEOROLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meteorologist mean? 

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

1. a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• METEOROLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

specialiser; specialist; specializer (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)

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

weather forecaster; weatherman (predicts the weather)

Derivation:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

meteorology (predicting what the weather will be)

 Context examples 

Craig Clements, a meteorologist at San José State University (SJSU), and researcher Neil Lareau, also of SJSU, have discovered that wildfires can create their own weather, leading to extreme fire behavior.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

Meteorologists define drizzle as water droplets smaller than 0.5 millimeters in diameter, or about one-five-hundredth of an inch.

(Drizzle at sub-zero temps recorded in Antarctica, National Science Foundation)