Linguistics

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  • noun. The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The science of languages, or of the origin and history of words; the general and comparative study of human languages and of their elements. Also called comparative philology.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
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  • noun. The scientific study of language.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the humanistic study of language and literature
  • noun. the scientific study of language
    • Word Usage
    "Hell, you probably think Chomsky's work in linguistics is rubbish just because he's a frothing loon on any other subject."
    cross-reference
    diction  grammar  morphology  philology  phonetics  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ballistics  characteristics  criminalistics  heuristics  logistics  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accidence  bowwow theory  comparative linguistics  derivation  descriptive linguistics  
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