scientist
Syllables: sci·ent·ist/ˈsaɪəntɪst/US/ˈsaɪəntəst/
scientist noun: one whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
Noun
scientist (plural scientists)
- One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
- As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a...1840, William Whewell, “Aphorisms Concerning the Language of Science. Aphorism XVI. In the Composition and Inflexion of Technical Terms, Philological Analogies are to be Preserved if Possible, but...
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60
- Synonyms:
- beaker
scientist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
scientist in Hindi
- one whose activities make use of the scientific method
- वैज्ञानिक vaijñānik, आलिम ālim, विज्ञानी vijñānī
scientist in Tamil
- one whose activities make use of the scientific method
- விஞ்ஞானி viññāṉi
scientist in Marathi
- one whose activities make use of the scientific method
- शास्त्रज्ञ śāstrajña, वैज्ञानिक vaijñānik
scientist in Urdu
- one whose activities make use of the scientific method
- عالِم 'ālim, دانِش مَنْد dāniś mand, سائِنْسْدان sāinsdān
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- scientist in Bengali
- বিজ্ঞানী biggêni, আলেম alem
- scientist in Telugu
- శాస్త్రవేత్త śāstravētta
- scientist in Malayalam
- ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ śāstrajñaṉ
- scientist in Kannada
- ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ vijñāni
- scientist in Punjabi
- ਵਿਗਿਆਨੀ vigiānī
- scientist in Gujarati
- વૈજ્ઞાનિક vaijñānik, વિજ્ઞાની vijñānī
- scientist in Odia
- ବିଜ୍ଞାନୀ bijñāni
- scientist in Sanskrit
- वैज्ञानिक vaijñānika, वैज्ञानिकी vaijñānikī
- scientist in Assamese
- বিজ্ঞানী biggani
- scientist in Nepali
- वैज्ञानिक
- scientist in Pashto
- عالم 'ālam, دانشمند dānešmánd, عليم 'alim
- scientist in Tagalog
- dalub-agham, siyentipiko
- scientist in Arabic
- عَالِم ʕālim, عَالِمَة ʕālima
- scientist in Malay
- saintis, ahli sains
- scientist in Indonesian
- ilmuwan
- scientist in Thai
- นักวิทยาศาสตร์ nák-wít-tá-yaa-sàat
- scientist in Vietnamese
- nhà khoa học, khoa học gia
- scientist in Myanmar
- ပညာရှင် pa.nyahrang
Examples of scientist in a sentence
- The scientist received the highest accolade in her field for the groundbreaking discovery.
- Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
- The scientist studied the acclimatization of plants introduced into new environments.
Synonyms of scientist
Forms of scientist
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Origin of scientist
Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 (see the quotation) as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) + -ist.
Words formed from scientist
- bench scientist
- bioscientist
- broscientist
- chief scientist
- citizen scientist
- creation scientist
- crime scientist
- criminal scientist
- cyberscientist
- data scientist
- environmental scientist
- e-scientist
- ethnoscientist
- food scientist
- gentleman scientist
- geroscientist
- glycoscientist
- histoscientist
- hydroscientist
- mad scientist
- metascientist
- nanoscientist
- neuroscientist
- nonscientist
- omniscientist
- parascientist
- political scientist
- remote sensing scientist
- rocket scientist
- scientess
- social scientist
- soil scientist
Phrases with scientist
Questions about scientist
- What does scientist mean?
- Scientist means one whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
- What is scientist in Hindi?
- Scientist in Hindi is वैज्ञानिक (vaijñānik), आलिम (ālim), विज्ञानी (vijñānī). See Scientist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is scientist?
- Scientist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce scientist?
- Scientist is pronounced /ˈsaɪəntɪst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of scientist?
- The plural of scientist is scientists.
Words near scientist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scientist (page history and authors); ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); scientist (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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