Definition of Toponymies

1. toponymy [n] - See also: toponymy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toponymies

topomers
topometric
topometrically
topometry
toponarcosis
toponia
toponium
toponiums
toponomastic
toponomastics
toponomist
toponomy
toponym
toponymic
toponymical
toponymies (current term)
toponymist
toponymists
toponyms
toponymy
topopathogenesis
topophilia
topophobia
topophotomap
topophylaxis
topos
toposcope
toposes
topotactic
topotecan

Literary usage of Toponymies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1862)
"Some better word might surely have been found among all the pretty Scottish toponymies. I would even have rather had it Italianized (inter amicos) into ..."

2. Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100 by Eric C. Klingelhöfer (1991)
"Similarly, settlement studies, and the contributory disciplines of historical geography, archaeology, and toponymies produce data on the physical location ..."

3. Asian Review by East India Association (London, England) (1901)
"... survive in the region of the Kra Isthmus in toponymies like Lang-khia or Lan-gya (the Lan-ya or Len-ya of maps and of the British Burma Gazetteer); ..."

4. Cornish Notes & Queries: (first Series) by Cornish Telegraph, Peter Penn (1906)
"toponymies, ie, personal names derived from the place where a particular ancestor lived, such as Polking- horne, Penrose, ..."

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