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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FY: I think that architects and designers have to be anthropologists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
Contemporary anthropologists have further popularized this view, arguing that “the Müller-Lyer illusion is a kind of culturally evolved by-product.”
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2025
That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
