Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One skilled in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in ethnology; a student of ethnology.

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  • noun One who practices ethnology.

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  • noun an anthropologist who studies ethnology

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Examples

  • Our ethnologist was the famous Professor David Barr, of Oxford.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • (They were basic, too, in books such as ethnologist James Cowles Prichard's monumental compendium Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.

    unknown title 2009

  • (They were basic, too, in books such as ethnologist James Cowles Prichard's monumental compendium Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.

    unknown title 2009

  • Also in 1862, the ethnologist John Beddoe published his “Index of Negrescence,” which measured the blackness of Europeans.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The University of Pennsylvania archaeologist and ethnologist Daniel G. Brinton argued in 1890 that the dark continent was “the cradle of the Semites.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The mere preservation in a museum for items such as these has always struck me as the approach of people to whom they are just the objects of abstract interest like that of the ethnologist, not a part of their living tradition.

    Spectacular Vestments from the Treasury of St. John Lateran 2009

  • Bizarre, perhaps, it was, and Oriental enough to puzzle any passing ethnologist.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • Gordon then sent photos of his discovery to famed ethnologist and archeologist Matthew Williams Stirling, who had described spheres beautifully worked by pre-Columbian natives of Costa Rica.

    Las Piedras Bola: the great stone balls of Ahualulco 2009

  • "Despite being an important part of contemporary culture, videogames hadn't yet found their place in museums," says Mr. Clais, an ethnologist and curator of the China section at the Musée Guimet, France's national museum for Asian arts, who wrote his doctoral thesis on videogames and computers.

    The Art of the Videogame Gabriele Parussini 2011

  • Gordon then sent photos of his discovery to famed ethnologist and archeologist Matthew Williams Stirling, who had described spheres beautifully worked by pre-Columbian natives of Costa Rica.

    Las Piedras Bola: the great stone balls of Ahualulco 2009

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