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# archaeologist

«archaeologist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a scientist who studies how people lived long ago by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an archaeologist, archaeologists)

### meaning for a pupil

An archaeologist is a scientist who studies how people lived long ago by digging up and examining old things they left behind, such as bones, tools, pots and buildings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons archaeologists explain how we know about the Stone Age, Romans, Vikings and Egyptians: they dig carefully, record where each find was, and date it. Archaeologists study human remains and things people made; dinosaur bones are studied by palaeontologists instead. In stories, archaeologists explore tombs and lost cities.

### examples

- The archaeologist found a Roman coin in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x1)
- Archaeologists dig very slowly with small trowels and brushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x2)
- An archaeologist can tell how old a pot is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x3)
- Archaeologists found a Viking ship under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x4)
- When I grow up I want to be an archaeologist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x5)
- The archaeologists marked every find on a map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x6)
- Archaeologists study ancient Egypt by looking at tombs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/#x7)

### note

Spelling: UK «archaeologist» (with «ae»); US also «archeologist». Pronounced «ar-kee-OL-uh-jist». Trap: archaeologists do not dig up dinosaurs — that is palaeontology.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «archaeologist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archaeologist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.