archaeologist

See also: archæologist

English

Alternative forms

• archæologist (Commonwealth)
• archeologist (mainly US)

Etymology

archaeolog(y) +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

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Noun

archaeologist (plural archaeologists)

1. Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

   Synonyms: (archaic) archaeologian, (archaic) archaeologer

   • 2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61:

     Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.

Derived terms

• arkeologist
• bioarchaeologist
• ethnoarchaeologist
• geoarchaeologist
• media archaeologist
• nonarchaeologist
• osteoarchaeologist
• zoarchaeologist
• zooarchaeologist}

 

Translations

someone who studies or practises archaeology

• Albanian: arkeolog (sq) m, arkeologe (sq) f
• Arabic: عَالِم آثَار m (ʕālim ʔāṯār)
• Aragonese: arqueologo m
• Armenian: հնագետ (hy) (hnaget)
• Asturian: arqueólogu m
• Belarusian: архео́лаг m (arxjeólah), архэо́лёг m (arxeóljoh) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: археоло́г m (arheológ), археоло́жка f (arheolóžka)
• Catalan: arqueòleg (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考古學家／考古学家 (zh) (kǎogǔxuéjiā)

• Czech: archeolog (cs) m, archeoložka (cs) f
• Danish: arkæolog (da) c
• Dutch: archeoloog (nl) m, archeologe (nl) f, oudheidkundige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: arĥeologo
• Estonian: arheoloog
• Extremaduran: arqueólogu
• Finnish: arkeologi (fi)
• French: archéologue (fr) m or f, archéologiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: arqueólogo (gl) m, arqueóloga f
• Georgian: არქეოლოგი (arkeologi)
• German: Archäologe (de) m, Archäologin (de) f
• Greek: αρχαιολόγος (el) m or f (archaiológos)
• Hebrew: אַרְכֵאוֹלוֹג (he) m (arkheolog), ארכאולוגית f (arkheologit)
• Hungarian: régész (hu), archeológus (hu)
• Irish: seandálaí m
• Italian: archeologo (it) m, archeologa (it) f
• Japanese: 考古学者 (ja) (こうこがくしゃ, kōkogakusha)
• Korean: 고고학자 (ko) (gogohakja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: arkeolog (ku) m or f, şûnwarnas (ku) m or f, bastannas (ku) m or f

• Latin: archaeologista f, archaeologistus m
• Latvian: arheologs m, arheoloģe f
• Lithuanian: archeologas m, archeologienė f
• Macedonian: археоло́г m (arheológ)
• Manx: shenndaalee m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arkeolog (no) m

  Nynorsk: arkeolog (nn) m

• Occitan: arqueològ (oc) m
• Persian: باستان‌شناس (fa) (bâstân-šenâs)
• Polish: archeolog (pl) m, archeolożka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arqueólogo (pt) m, arqueóloga (pt) f
• Romanian: arheolog (ro) m, arheologă (ro) f
• Russian: архео́лог (ru) m (arxeólog)
• Scottish Gaelic: àrsair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: археолог m

  Roman: arheolog (sh) m

• Slovak: archeológ (sk) m
• Slovene: arheolog (sl) m
• Spanish: arqueólogo (es) m, arqueóloga f
• Swahili: mwanaakiolojia
• Swedish: arkeolog (sv) c
• Tagalog: arkeologo
• Turkish: arkeolog (tr), kazı bilimci (tr)
• Ukrainian: архео́лог (uk) m (arxeóloh)
• Volapük: vönotavan (vo) m or f, hivönotavan m, jivönotavan f