ethnographer
noun
a person engaged in ethnography, especially an anthropologist.
ethnographers
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pluralof ethnographer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
In the 19th and early 20th Centuries Swedish explorers, ethnographers and botanists would pay to travel on British ships to Cape Town and then make their way inland by rail and foot.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Early European ethnographers thought the Coast Salish were exclusively hunter-gatherers who had not domesticated any animals, including dogs.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
However, there is evidence to suggest that large game was much more abundant in North America, for example, before the 19th- and 20th-century ethnographers observed foraging behaviors.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
An interesting excursion might be made on this subject, seemingly so far at variance with the conclusions of learned ethnographers.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
