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    PHILOLOGY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    The humanistic study of language and literatureplay

    Synonyms:

    linguistics; philology

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("philology" is a kind of...):

    arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philology"):

    dialectology (the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects)

    lexicology (the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language)

    Derivation:

    philological (of or relating to or dealing with philology)

    philologist (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)

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