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ETHNOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An anthropologist who studies ethnology
Classified under:
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)
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