egyptologist
/ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Egyptology.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Egyptologist.
Example Sentences
- "An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice."
- "The famous egyptologist, Prof. G. Maspero, is now having the third work of his Egyptian trilogy translated from the French by M. L. McClure"
- "A. Rita Freed, an egyptologist at Memphis State University in Tennessee and the person who put the extra "es" in Ramesses for the Boston exhibition,"
- ".. beautiful in the ancient burial ground of the Valley of the Queens and has been closed since its discovery by Italian egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli."
- "In 1924, Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor."
- "The egyptologists believe that she is one of three mummies discovered in a secret chamber of a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor."
Etymology
From Egypto- + -logist.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒɪst/