medievalist

noun

me·​di·​e·​val·​ist ˌmē-ˈdē-və-list How to pronounce medievalist (audio)
mi-,
ˌme-,
-dē-ˈē-və-
1
: a specialist in medieval history and culture
2
: a connoisseur or devotee of medieval arts and culture

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The Gottschalk was the sort of text—Latin, Christian, European—on which medievalists built respectable careers. Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024 Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets. Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024 Gerhard Lutz, a medievalist in a group of half a dozen curators visiting from the Cleveland Museum, was impressed by a small stone statue of the prophet Isaiah attributed to the 14th-century Flemish sculptor Claus Sluter, priced at €500,000 on the booth of the London dealer Sam Fogg. Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 Archaeologists can punch Nazis … metaphorically In the third movie, The Last Crusade, Indy searches for his kidnapped father, an eccentric medievalist played by Sean Connery. Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for medievalist 

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of medievalist was in 1855

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“Medievalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medievalist. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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