Associations to the word «Environmentalist»

Wiktionary

ENVIRONMENTALIST, noun. (medicine) (social sciences) One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.
ENVIRONMENTALIST, noun. One who advocates for the protection of the biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention
ENVIRONMENTALIST, adjective. Of, or relating to environmentalism.

Dictionary definition

ENVIRONMENTALIST, noun. Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope