linguistics 2
noundomain: thinking
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
the humanistic study of language and literature
Hypernym
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
EnglishDerivationally related form
linguistic 1
adjective
consisting of or related to language
linguist 1
noun
a specialist in linguistics
Hyponym
dialectology 1
noun
the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects
lexicology 1
noun
the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
the philology of Classical Sanskrit, Greek and Classical Latin.
a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct.
phraseology 2
noun
study of set or fixed expressions.
