naturalist

From natural +‎ -ist.

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naturalist (plural naturalists)

2. (obsolete, except as merged with later senses) A natural philosopher; a scientist. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

     It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty.

4. (philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism. [from 16th c.]
6. An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals. [from 17th c.]
   • a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language‎^[1], 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 236:

     I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.

8. (art) A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism. [from 19th c.]

• natural history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “naturalist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from French naturaliste.

naturalist m (plural naturaliști, feminine equivalent naturalistă)

1. naturalist

• “naturalist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025