ubiquitist
ubiquitist noun: one who is always to be found (within a certain context). Also the alternative form of ubiquitarian.
Noun
ubiquitist (plural ubiquitists)
- One who is always to be found (within a certain context).
- However, it has a history which, documented as scrupulously as possible from hearsay, gossip, clippings, hottings, a playscript courteously furnished by the Theater Guild and a stead number of items supplied by Mr. Leonard Lyons — an ubiquitist who frequently complains that he is always quoted...1943, The Commonweal - Volumes 39-40, page 568
- Nevertheless, he is still a ubiquitist of these islands. You'll meet him on the quiet country road (he's on the 'tramp' then), drinking to the full Nature's beauties as he wends his way; or again in our village and towns, at work or seeking it.1987, Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin's Vanishing Craftsmen: In Search of the Old Masters, page 167
- An organism that can be found in most types of environment.
- A much more numerous biotic element occurs also in other biotopes, whether only in similar adjacent ones or in widely scattered very different habitats, as ubiquitists (forms with high ecological valence, i.e., eurytopic forms).1951, Warder Clyde Allee, Ecological Animal Geography
- Fortunately, many micro-organisms are true ubiquitists, and descriptions of algae from America will often show the same genera, if not the same species, as those encountered here.1960, Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council, Papers, page 1
Adjective
ubiquitist (comparative more ubiquitist, superlative most ubiquitist)
- Widespread; ubiquitous.
- The social contacts and social ties that exist tend to exist only for the sake of securing drugs. This is true even of the ubiquitist sexual union.1968, The Career of the Felon, page 63
- The 'pride even blasphemy' which seemed part and parcel of a format which viewed the entire world as if from without, whilst within its confines, and which assumed the 'eternal, ubiquitist perspective' of its creator, a god's-eye perspective, are absent in Münster's Cosmographia.2013, Dr Matthew McLean, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster
Also used as
ubiquitist is also the alternative form of ubiquitarian.
Examples of ubiquitist in a sentence
- Leonard Lyons — an ubiquitist who frequently complains that he is always quoted though never mentioned — runs something like this : […]1943, The Commonweal - Volumes 39-40, page 568:
- Theoretically, ubiquitists will survive and specialists will disappear.1994, F. Veroustraete, Vegetation, modelling and climatic change effects, page 29:
Forms of ubiquitist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ubiquitists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more ubiquitist |
| superlative | most ubiquitist |
Origin of ubiquitist
From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ist.
Questions about ubiquitist
- What does ubiquitist mean?
- Ubiquitist means one who is always to be found (within a certain context).
- How do you use ubiquitist in a sentence?
- Leonard Lyons — an ubiquitist who frequently complains that he is always quoted though never mentioned — runs something like this : […]
- What part of speech is ubiquitist?
- Ubiquitist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of ubiquitist?
- The plural of ubiquitist is ubiquitists.
Words near ubiquitist in the dictionary
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