Indiana Jones

English

Etymology

After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊnz

Noun

Indiana Jones (plural Indiana Joneses)

1. An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.

   There are many Indiana Joneses in the fields of science, history, and art who are willing to find ancient artifacts and remains.

   • 2016, Renate Dohmen, Encounters Beyond the Gallery:

     Their sights firmly set on unlocking their mysteries, these Indiana Joneses, it seems, summarily failed to solve the riddle – returning empty-handed to the shores of Western academe […]

   • 2018, Daniel Lewis, Belonging on an Island, page 22:

     Ambitious and hard-charging—an Indiana Jones of the Hawaiian bird world— Storrs would go on to become the world's greatest expert on Hawaiian fossil birds, discovering numerous species new to science […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Indiana Jones.

Derived terms

• Indiana Jonesesque
• Indiana Jonesian