Toponymy

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The place names of a region or language.
  • noun. The study of such place names.
  • noun. Nomenclature with respect to a region of the body rather than to organs or structures.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In geography, see the extract. Compare toponomy.
  • noun. In anatomy, the designation of the position and direction of parts and organs, as distinguished from the names of the parts and organs themselves, which is the province of organonymy; regional or topographical nomenclature; topical terminology.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms.
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  • noun. lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics
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  • noun. the nomenclature of regional anatomy
  • noun. the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language