archeologist

archeologist — noun

1. a scientist who digs up and studies old buildings, tools, bones, and other objec

1.名詞B1
釋義

a scientist who digs up and studies old buildings, tools, bones, and other objects left by people from the distant past, in order to understand how they lived

例句

Dr. Amani, the lead archeologist, discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near the Nile river.

archeologist + discovered [ancient object/place]

A team of young archeologists worked with local students to study the old village site.

同義詞
  • archaeologist

    identical meaning; this is the more common international spelling

  • excavator

    narrower — refers specifically to someone who digs at a site, not the full range of analytical work

用法筆記

This is the American English spelling; the British and international spelling is archaeologist (with the digraph ae). Both are pronounced the same way.

常見錯誤

❌An archeologist studies living tribes in the Amazon.
✅An archeologist studies old objects and buildings from the past.
💡Archeologists study ancient remains; anthropologists study living cultures.
❌The archeaologist found a fossilized dinosaur bone.
✅The archeologist found an ancient clay pot at the dig site.
💡The correct spelling has 'eo' (not 'ea'), and archeologists study human artifacts, not dinosaur fossils (that is paleontology).