Associations to the word «Naturalist»

Wiktionary

NATURALIST, noun. (dated) A person committed to studying nature or natural history.
NATURALIST, noun. (philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.

Dictionary definition

NATURALIST, noun. An advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms.
NATURALIST, noun. A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky