The science of words; that branch of learning which treats of the proper signification and just application of words.
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The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Language Roget’s Thesaurus §560
N. language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, king's english, queen's english, dialect, confusion of tongues, babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship
V. express by words
Adj. lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary
Phr. "syllables govern the world"
No Bible verses found for "Lexicology".