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sociologist

sociologist noun: a scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist.

Noun

sociologist (plural sociologists)

  1. A scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist.
    • The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew...2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post

sociologist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

sociologist in Hindi

scientist studying the field of sociology
समाजशास्त्री samājśāstrī

sociologist in Tamil

சமூக இயலாளர், சமூக இயல் நிபுணர்

sociologist in Urdu

scientist studying the field of sociology
سماجیات دان samājiyāt-dān, ماہرِ سماجیات māhir-e-samājiyāt, ماہرۂ سماجیات māhirā-e-samājiyāt

sociologist in Kannada

ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಜ್ಞ
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sociologist in Tagalog
dalub-ulnong

Forms of sociologist

pluralsociologists

Origin of sociologist

From sociology + -ist.

Words formed from sociologist

Questions about sociologist

What does sociologist mean?
Sociologist means a scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist.
What is sociologist in Hindi?
Sociologist in Hindi is समाजशास्त्री (samājśāstrī). See Sociologist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sociologist?
Sociologist is a noun.
What is the plural of sociologist?
The plural of sociologist is sociologists.

Words near sociologist in the dictionary

  1. sociological imaginations
  2. sociologically
  3. sociologies
  4. sociologism
  5. sociologisms
  6. sociologist
  7. sociologistic
  8. sociologists
  9. sociologize
  10. sociologized
  11. sociologizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sociologist (page history and authors); sociologist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sociologist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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