Indiana Jones

noun

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.”

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Meanings

nounIndiana Jones (plural Indiana Joneses)

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.

    2 more examples

    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 […]

    2016, Renate Dohmen, Encounters Beyond the Gallery

    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 […]

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

Origin

After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981, named after its creator George Lucas’s dog Indiana.

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Cite this entry
APA

Indiana Jones. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indiana%20Jones

MLA

“Indiana Jones.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indiana%20Jones. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Indiana Jones,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indiana%20Jones.

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