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ENVIRONMENTALIST

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• ENVIRONMENTALIST (noun)
The noun ENVIRONMENTALIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution

Familiarity information: ENVIRONMENTALIST used as a noun is very rare.

• ENVIRONMENTALIST (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

conservationist; environmentalist

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

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

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

Green (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)

tree hugger (derogatory term for environmentalists who support restrictions on the logging industry and the preservation of forests)

Instance hyponyms:

Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Louise Carson (United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964))

Barbara Ward; Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth; Ward (English economist and conservationist (1914-1981))

"Even a worm will turn."
(English proverb)
"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark."
(Native American proverb, Cheyenne)
"The thief stole from the thief, God looked on and got astonished."
(Armenian proverb)
"Dogs don't eat dogs."
(Czech proverb)

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Definition of meliorist
Pronunciation of reformer
Definition of social reformer
Pronunciation of Green
Definition of Carson

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