anthropologist
noun
a person who specializes in anthropology.
anthropologists
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pluralof anthropologist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In recent decades, many biologists and anthropologists have come to view Homo sapiens as what’s called a “cooperative breeder.”
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
But the heart of the film is Boyes’ quixotic search, aided by trackers and anthropologists, and eventually, a regional king.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The group included anthropologists, geneticists, an archaeologist, an archaeobotanist, stable isotope specialists, radiocarbon experts, and dentists.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2025
Linguistic evidence, first weighed by anthropologists in the 1970s, suggests that they arrived from the north as late as the seventeenth century, about the time of the first Spanish settlers and missionaries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
