Word.ws English Dictionary

ecologists

ecologists is the plural of ecologist.

Meaning of ecologist

Noun

ecologist (plural ecologists)

  1. A scholar of ecology.
    • 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.2006 December 15, Alok Jha, “Planting trees to save planet is pointless, say ecologists”, in The Guardian
  2. (uncommon) An environmentalist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment).
    • 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.2003, Christopher Rootes, Environmental Protest in Western Europe, OUP, →ISBN, page 210

Phrases with ecologists

Questions about ecologists

What is ecologists the plural of?
Ecologists is the plural of ecologist.

Words near ecologists in the dictionary

  1. ecologically
  2. ecologically friendly
  3. ecologies
  4. ecologism
  5. ecologist
  6. ecologists
  7. ecologization
  8. ecologizations
  9. ecologue
  10. ecology
  11. ecology block

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ecologists (page history and authors); ecologist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ecologists.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ecologists. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.