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EGYPTOLOGIST

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Meaning:

An archeologist who specializes in Egyptology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)

Instance hyponyms:

Carter; Howard Carter (Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939))

Champollion; Jean Francois Champollion (Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832))

Thomas Young; Young (British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829))

Derivation:

Egyptology (archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts)

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