LEXICOLOGY
Dictionary entry overview: What does lexicology mean? • LEXICOLOGY (noun)
The noun LEXICOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
Familiarity information: LEXICOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LEXICOLOGY (noun)
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)
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