anthropologist

American  

[an-thruh-pol-uh-jist] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒl ə dʒɪst /

noun

1. a person who specializes in anthropology.

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Etymology

Origin of anthropologist

First recorded in 1790–1800; anthropolog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

Gibson’s character C Hemingway on Fox’s “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” is also trans, something he discloses at work as a forensic anthropologist reconstructing the faces of people disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Her book is also filled with the unpublished notes and unfinished research of her beloved grandmother, an anthropologist who documented several of the festivals Ms. MeLampy writes about.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

I’m a cultural anthropologist, and what we do is field work.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2025

Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones—a foot, part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey