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COSMOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cosmologist" is a kind of...):

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Instance hyponyms:

Edouard Lemaitre; Georges Henri Lemaitre; Lemaitre (Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966))

Derivation:

cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)

cosmology (the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe)

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