"ecologist" meaning in English

See ecologist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /iːˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/, /ɪˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ecologist.wav Forms: ecologists [plural]
Etymology: From eco- + -logist. The less common sense “environmentalist” might be from association with deep ecology, or influenced by Romance-language equivalents such as Spanish ecologista (“environmentalist”). Etymology templates: {{confix|en|eco|logist}} eco- + -logist, {{cog|es|ecologista|t=environmentalist}} Spanish ecologista (“environmentalist”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ecologist (plural ecologists)
  1. A scholar of ecology. Categories (topical): Ecology Translations (A scientist who studies ecology): ecólogu [masculine] (Asturian), ecòleg [masculine] (Catalan), 生態學家 (Chinese Mandarin), 生态学家 (shēngtàixuéjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), ekolog [masculine] (Czech), ecoloog [masculine] (Dutch), ecologe [feminine] (Dutch), ekologo (Esperanto), ekologi (Finnish), écologue [feminine, masculine] (French), écologiste [feminine, masculine] (French), ecoloxista (Galician), Ökologe [masculine] (German), Ökologin [feminine] (German), ökológus (Hungarian), éiceolaí [masculine] (Irish), ecologista [feminine, masculine] (Italian), ecologo [masculine] (Italian), 環境学者 (kankyōgakusha) (alt: かんきょうがくしゃ) (Japanese), ekologs [masculine] (Latvian), ekoloģe [feminine] (Latvian), kaimātai hauropi (Maori), écologiste [feminine, masculine] (Norman), ekolog [masculine] (Polish), ecologista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), ecólogo [masculine] (Portuguese), ecologist [masculine] (Romanian), эко́лог (ekólog) [masculine] (Russian), ecólogo [masculine] (Spanish), ecóloga [feminine] (Spanish), ekolog [common-gender] (Swedish), еко́лог (ekóloh) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-ecologist-en-noun-NYzHhkOy Disambiguation of Ecology: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'A scientist who studies ecology': 79 21
  2. (uncommon) An environmentalist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment). Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): People, Scientists
    Sense id: en-ecologist-en-noun-UXt6Sv4J Disambiguation of People: 40 60 Disambiguation of Scientists: 32 68 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with eco-, English terms suffixed with -logist, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Asturian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with eco-: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -logist: 24 76 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Asturian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: œcologist [archaic] Related terms: ecological, ecologism, ecology

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    "en:Ecology",
    "en:People",
    "en:Scientists"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "agroecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "astroecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "bioecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "chemoecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "deep ecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "dendroecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "ethnoecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "geoecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "macroecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "palaeoecologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "paleoecologist"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "eco",
        "3": "logist"
      },
      "expansion": "eco- + -logist",
      "name": "confix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ecologista",
        "t": "environmentalist"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish ecologista (“environmentalist”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From eco- + -logist. The less common sense “environmentalist” might be from association with deep ecology, or influenced by Romance-language equivalents such as Spanish ecologista (“environmentalist”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ecologists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ecologist (plural ecologists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ecological"
    },
    {
      "word": "ecologism"
    },
    {
      "word": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 15, Alok Jha, “Planting trees to save planet is pointless, say ecologists”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Planting trees to combat climate change is a waste of time, according to a study by ecologists who say that most forests do not have any overall effect on global temperature, while those furthest from the equator could actually be making global warming worse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 27, Peter Andrey Smith, “Mapping the Great Indoors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Once ecologists have more thoroughly identified indoor species, they hope to come up with strategies to scientifically manage homes, by eliminating harmful taxa and fostering species beneficial to our health.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 3, Graham Readfearn, “‘Silent death’: Australia's bushfires push countless species to extinction”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Ecologists say the months of intense and unprecedented fires will almost certainly push several species to extinction.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scholar of ecology."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ecology",
          "ecology"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Christopher Rootes, Environmental Protest in Western Europe, OUP, →ISBN, page 210:",
          "text": "Protest actions of this type served to take debate, and the Basque ecologists, onto the street and to encourage people to carry out principled actions such as the eco-sabotage at Itoiz.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Carolyn Merchant, Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 254:",
          "text": "Despite the accomplishments and the vision of radical ecologists, however, most of the world's power is presently concentrated in economic systems and political institutions that bring about environmental deterioration.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lorenzo Bosi, Marco Giugni, Katrin Uba, editors, The Consequences of Social Movements, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 274:",
          "text": "Second, throughout the 1970s, the party Executive guaranteed its support to numerous ecologists’ protest actions, and formed a number of broader umbrella organizations with ecology groups and smaller parties on the Left in order to facilitate communication, share ideas and strategies, and organize and promote common social initiatives on environmental matters.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An environmentalist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "environmentalist",
          "environmentalist"
        ],
        [
          "protection",
          "protection#English"
        ],
        [
          "environment",
          "environment#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon) An environmentalist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/iːˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "œcologist"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecólogu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecòleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "生態學家"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēngtàixuéjiā",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "生态学家"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekolog"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecoloog"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ecologe"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "ekologo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "ekologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "écologue"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "écologiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "ecoloxista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ökologe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ökologin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "ökológus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "éiceolaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecologista"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecologo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんきょうがくしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kankyōgakusha",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "環境学者"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekologs"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ekoloģe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "word": "kaimātai hauropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "écologiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ekolog"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecologista"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecólogo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecologist"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekólog",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "эко́лог"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ecólogo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ecóloga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ekolog"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ekóloh",
      "sense": "A scientist who studies ecology",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "еко́лог"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ecologist"
}

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