noun · neutral
scientist
/ˈsaɪəntɪst/SCI·en·tist
Band 5-6task2speaking
a person who studies or practises science, conducting experiments and research
Examples
“The scientists published their findings in a major journal.”
“A team of scientists spent five years working on the vaccine.”
“Young students met a scientist during the school open day to learn about lab work.”
Band 8 sentence
“The climate scientists combined observational data with complex models to forecast regional temperature changes over the next fifty years.”
Collocations
- scientific research
- research scientist
- team of scientists
Word family
scientist nounscientists noun (plural)scientific adjectivescientifically adverb
Common mistakes
He is a science.→He is a scientist.
many scientist→many scientists
Say it for a higher band
5researcher→6lab worker→7+scientist
Synonyms
researcher
Easily confused
researcher
“The researcher collected survey data across five cities.”
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