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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

archaeologist

/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

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ar-kee-OL-uh-jist: ch has a k sound.

The spelling ae gives an ee sound here. Listen for the stronger OL syllable, then a soft “uh-jist” with the j of “jam.”

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The archaeologist carefully uncovered a small clay bowl.

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What does archaeologist mean?

noun

  1. Someone who studies or practises archaeology.

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/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

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Some eager archaeologist may hereafter discover this cabin and startle his world by announcing another of the Stone Age caves.
John MuirSteep TrailsProject Gutenberg ebook #326
An eminent archaeologist is of opinion that this boat dates from the Glacial epoch, perhaps even from a more remote time.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309
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She had been the widow of a German archaeologist, who had come to Rome in the early ages as an attache of the Prussian legation on the Capitoline.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
He has reproduced in water-colour, with loving care, the decorations of the specimens of prehistoric pottery which his excavations have revealed, and which he has endeavoured to reconstruct, with all the science of an archaeologist.
Georges Victor LegrosFabre, Poet of ScienceTranslated by Bernard MiallProject Gutenberg ebook #3489