Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jean_francois_champollion

1 sense of jean francois champollion

Sense 1
Champollion, Jean Francois Champollion -- (Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832))
       INSTANCE OF=> Egyptologist -- (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)