ethnologistn.
/ɛθˈnɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ɛθˈnɑlədʒəst/ Social Sciences (now somewhat dated).
An expert in or student of ethnology; = social anthropologist n. at social anthropology n. Derivatives, cultural anthropologist n. at cultural anthropology n. Derivatives.
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ethnographer1825
ethnologist1831
ethnographist1841
ethnicist1846
ethnologer1847
ethnolinguist1946
1831 Foreign Q. Rev. 10 366 Instead of running into every corner of the earth like the ethnologists, and scribbling down in a hurry incorrect vocabularies of a hundred different tongues, they have applied themselves patiently to the investigation of a single family of languages.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1843) xv. 132 Every new ethnologist subdivides the nations which his predecessor had connected.
1878 W. H. Dall On Remains Later Prehist. Man 4 The ethnologist..may rifle their burial places.
1921 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 41 66 Philologists and ethnologists almost universally agree that the Dravidians came into India from the same direction as did the Aryans.
1963 A. Sharp Anc. Voyagers in Polynesia ii. 49 An ethnologist of Hawaii has shown that the calabash was in fact a receptacle for carrying things.
2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 204 Ethnologists and anthropologists would need to look to their own back yard for recent evidence of social evolution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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