Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.

    Umweltschützer, Umweltschützerin

    эко́логekólog, зелёныйzeljónyj

    someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution

  2. One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. Do you consider yourself a environmentalist?

  2. Tom is an environmentalist.

    ruТом — защитник окружающей среды. — odexed

  3. Are you an environmentalist?

    deSind Sie Umweltschützer? — Waldelfe

  4. I'm not a fan of environmentalists.

  5. I like environmentalism, but not environmentalists.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one who advocates for the protection of the environment:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who advocates for the protection of the environment:

Forms

plural: environmentalists

Synonyms

4 synonyms
one who advocates for the protection of the environment:ecologistB2eco-warriorenvironmental activist
Close in meaning
  • someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution:conservationist

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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