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

1 sense of rasmussen

Sense 1
Rasmussen, Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen -- (Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933))
       INSTANCE OF=> explorer, adventurer -- (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
       INSTANCE OF=> ethnologist -- (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)