Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scientist"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scientist \Sci"en*tist\, n.
One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one
devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]
Note: Twenty years ago I ventured to propose one [a name for
the class of men who give their lives to scientific
study] which has been slowly finding its way to general
adoption; and the word scientist, though scarcely
euphonious, has gradually assumed its place in our
vocabulary. --B. A. Gould (Address, 1869).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scientist
n : a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences
[syn: {man of science}]
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