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PHILATELY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The collection and study of postage stamps
Synonyms:
philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("philately" is a kind of...):
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philately"):
aerophilately (the collection and study of airmail stamps)
Derivation:
philatelic; philatelical (of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists)
philatelist (a collector and student of postage stamps)
