naturalist

Contents

English

Etymology

From French naturaliste.

Noun

naturalist (plural naturalists)

1. A person committed to studying nature or natural history.
2. (philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
3. (historical) A natural philosopher.

Translations

a person who studies nature or natural history

• Dutch: natuurvorser (nl) m
• Finnish: luonnontieteilijä (fi)
• Galician: naturalista m or f
• German: Naturforscher (de) m, Naturforscherin (de) f
• Greek: φυσιοδίφης (el) m (fysiodífis)
• Ido: naturalisto (io)
• Macedonian: природонаучник m (prirodonáučnik), природњак m (prirodnják)

• Mongolian: байгальч (mn) (bajgalʹč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: naturforsker m

  Nynorsk: naturforskar m

• Portuguese: naturalista (pt) m or f
• Spanish: naturalista (es) m or f
• Volapük: (♂♀) nativestigan, (♂) natihivestigan, (♀) natijivestigan

a person who advocates naturalism

• Finnish: naturalisti
• French: naturaliste (fr) m or f
• German: Naturalist (de) m, Naturalistin f
• Greek: φυσιοκράτης (el) m (fysiokrátis)
• Ido: naturalisto (io)

• Macedonian: натуралист m (naturalíst)
• Mongolian: натуралист (naturalist)
• Portuguese: naturalista (pt) m or f
• Spanish: naturalista (es) m or f
• Volapük: (♂♀) natiman, (♂) hinatiman, (♀) jinatiman

See also

• botanist
• biologist
• geologist
• natural history
• scientist
• zoologist

Further reading

• natural history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• naturalist at OneLook Dictionary Search