CRIMINOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in criminology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

specialiser; specialist; specializer (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)

Instance hyponyms:

Alphonse Bertillon; Bertillon (French criminologist (1853-1914))

Derivation:

criminology (the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement)

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