ENVIRONMENTALIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does environmentalist mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• ENVIRONMENTALIST (noun)
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))
"Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense." (English proverb)
"If you do not have malice inside, it will not come from outside." (Albanian proverb)
"The person who pours water to other is the last one to drink." (Arabic proverb)
"A crazy father and mother make sensible children." (Corsican proverb)
