Indiana Jones
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
After the fictional archaeologist Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊnz
Noun[edit]
Indiana Jones (plural Indiana Joneses)
- An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.
- There are many Indiana Joneses in the fields of science, history, and art who are willing to find ancient artifacts and remains.
- 2016, Renate Dohmen, Encounters Beyond the Gallery:
- Their sights firmly set on unlocking their mysteries, these Indiana Joneses, it seems, summarily failed to solve the riddle – returning empty-handed to the shores of Western academe […]
- 2018, Daniel Lewis, Belonging on an Island, page 22:
- Ambitious and hard-charging—an Indiana Jones of the Hawaiian bird world— Storrs would go on to become the world's greatest expert on Hawaiian fossil birds, discovering numerous species new to science […]
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Indiana Jones.