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METEOROLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meteorologist"):

weather forecaster; weatherman (predicts the weather)

Derivation:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

meteorology (predicting what the weather will be)

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