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cosmologist

Other forms: cosmologists

A cosmologist is a scientist who studies the universe. If you hope to become a cosmologist one day, you'll want to take a lot of astronomy classes in college.

It's easy to confuse the words cosmologist and cosmetologist, though the jobs themselves are completely different. A cosmologist focuses her studies on the structure and history of the entire universe — how it formed, how it's changed, and what exists within it. A cosmetologist, on the other hand, is an expert at hair styling and applying makeup. The Greek roots of cosmologist are kosmos, "order or orderly arrangement," and logia, "discourse or dialog."

Definitions of cosmologist
  1. noun
    an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe
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    examples:
    Georges Henri Lemaitre
    Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)
    type of:
    astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
    a physicist who studies astronomy
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