meteorologist
Americannoun
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meteorologists
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of meteorologist
First recorded in 1630–40; meteorolog(y) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )
Explanation
The expert TV reporter who presents the nightly weather forecast is a meteorologist. If you want to know if it's going to rain on your picnic this weekend, ask a meteorologist! Meteorologists get their name from the Greek meteōrologia, "discussion or study of high things." The "high thing" meteorologists study and report on is the planet's atmosphere — and the way it affects the weather. While people have tried to predict the weather for centuries, it's only recently that science has caught up with this goal, and meteorologists usually get it right.
Vocabulary lists containing meteorologist
Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Andrew Scott says he loved his latest acting role as Group Captain James Stagg, the meteorologist key to the success of World War Two's D-Day - the largest seaborne invasion in history.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“We got a bit of a break last week,” said Rich Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"I would say that it is definitely one of the worst fire crises I've seen in the past, maybe eight to 10 years," Theodore Giannaros, a senior wildfire meteorologist at the National Observatory, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
“We’ve had these elevated temperatures for the last several days here, and that compounding effect can be significant,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
He was a small dignified scholar with a white goatee beard, and as far as I could gather, he was an astrologer, a meteorologist and a speaker of ancient Greek.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
He has to work with a team of meteorologists who robustly and publicly disagree with each other.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Angelenos avoided the most significant impacts of Hurricane Marie over the Labor Day weekend, but the region continued to soak up the fringes of the storm Sunday, according to meteorologists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The pilot, Captain Al Wallach said the successful mission reflected the specialist expertise of the team's people, which included the flight crews, meteorologists, operational planers, runway teams and medical personnel.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The new president has also vowed to tackle the El Nino climate phenomenon, which meteorologists predict will be the most intense and devastating since 1998.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It tells meteorologists what’s happening and can help them to understand the approaching weather systems and make predictions.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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