citizen scientist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An amateur (or nonprofessional) scientist; especially, a person who collects data from the natural world that can be used by scientists.
Example Sentences
- "But now the stage is set for the return of the amateur, in a twenty-first century incarnation, as the citizen scientist. The popular spirit is willing. Citizen scientists already comprise the vanguard of a new nature movement, one as focused on […]"
- "As a citizen scientist, you may want to submit well-documented photographs to the website Odonata Central to increase the information available about where and when species turn up in this country. If you see migrating dragonflies, you can […]"