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anthropological

adjective

  1. related to anthropology
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Pronunciation: /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English anthropology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English anthropological From anthropology + -ical.

  1. Relating to anthropology.

    Much of the film is a detached, almost anthropological, look at the lives of the women and men, both white and of color, who live in the slums and housing projects outside of Paris.

    He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

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