Archaeologist, n.
A person who studies the historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, esp. those that have been excavated.
When digging out the foundation for the new supermarket, old bones were discovered. The question was, call the police or call an archaeologist?
Alternate usage:
An archaeologist is a man whose career lies in ruins.
How will you use archaeologist in a sentence today?
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Darn. I thought I was getting ‘good’ at this, but I fail to ‘get’ the alternate usage today. Oh well, but maybe I’ll use it as a hint.
Writing a memoir is a bit like being an archaeologist digging up the errors of the past, the artifacts of behavior, the monuments of words spoken that lie in the graves of personal histories, in the hope of a resurrection of new life through the deliverance of the flesh and bones of the corpse of the past, into a new life that is made possible with the prospect of a ‘happy ending’ that will not end with the museum piece of the book itself.
Agatha Christie’s second husband was an archaeologist. She said they made a good choice for an older woman, because the older something is the better the archaeologist likes it.