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LEXICOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lexicology" is a kind of...):
linguistics; philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lexicology"):
onomastics (the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names)
toponomy; toponymy (the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language)
Derivation:
lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
