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Definition of Lexicology
1. Noun. The branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language.
Specialized synonyms: Onomastics, Toponomy, Toponymy
Derivative terms: Lexicologist
Definition of Lexicology
1. n. The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Definition of Lexicology
1. Noun. (linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon. ¹
2. Noun. A specific theory concerning the lexicon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lexicology
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Medical Definition of Lexicology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lexicology
Literary usage of Lexicology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Southern Review by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1869)
"We may here briefly state the fact, that English lexicology has been brought
within the ... Our lexicology has been greatly improved within a few years. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"A theory of it, however, may be laid down ; which might be styled Lexicology, —
a term that has recently come into use. That this theory has not as yet been ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1882)
"... animals " for vertebrates, and the term "suck-giving " for mammalian, why does
he take away the layman's breath by proposing the term /lexicology, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek: Regarded as a Sure Basis by Georg Benedikt Winer, ( (1882)
"A theory might however be constructed, for which the recently introduced term
lexicology would be a convenient name. No such theory has as yet been fully ..."
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