Tom is a speleologist.
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Speleologist
Synonyms for "speleologist" (5 found)
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28 translations across 17 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- espeleòleg noun (person who studies caves)
- espeleòloga noun (person who studies caves)
Czech
1 entries- speleolog noun (person who studies caves)
Dutch
2 entries- speleologe noun (person who studies caves)
- speleoloog noun (person who studies caves)
Esperanto
1 entries- speleologo noun (person who studies caves)
Finnish
2 entries- luolatutkija noun (person who studies caves)
- speleologi noun (person who studies caves)
French
1 entries- spéléologue noun (person who studies caves)
German
4 entries- Höhlenforscher noun (person who studies caves)
- Höhlenforscherin noun (person who studies caves)
- Speläologe noun (person who studies caves)
- Speläologin noun (person who studies caves)
Greek
1 entries- σπηλαιολόγος noun (person who studies caves)
Hungarian
2 entries- barlangkutató noun (person who studies caves)
- szpeleológus noun (person who studies caves)
Italian
2 entries- speleologa noun (person who studies caves)
- speleologo noun (person who studies caves)
Polish
1 entries- speleolog noun (person who studies caves)
Portuguese
2 entries- espeleologista noun (person who studies caves)
- espeleólogo noun (person who studies caves)
Russian
1 entries- спелео́лог noun (person who studies caves)
Slovak
1 entries- speleológ noun (person who studies caves)
Spanish
1 entries- espeleólogo noun (person who studies caves)
Ukrainian
1 entries- спелео́лог noun (person who studies caves)
Volapük
3 entries- hilekevavan noun (person who studies caves)
- jilekevavan noun (person who studies caves)
- lekevavan noun (person who studies caves)
Sample sentences
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In 1904 we had the pleasure of escorting that veteran speleologist, Monsieur E. A. Martel, through the old and the new caves at Wookey Hole.
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Under this heading M. E. A. Martel, the distinguished speleologist or cave-explorer of Europe, whose researches have recently added considerably to our knowledge of the Adelsberg grotto, furnishes to La Nature an interesting account of the episode in the Lueg-Loch or Lur-Loch, near the Styrian capital, which so nearly resulted fatally to the seven members of the Höhlenforscher—Fasching, Fölzmann, Zweyer, Oswald, Maier, Kurz and Haidt—who, on the 28th of April, attempted the exploration of the lost passage of the Semriach.
Source: wiktionary
The first man known to have descended Gaping Gill is well known on the Continent as an expert cave-explorer or speleologist — to use the new term which he perhaps invented.
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