ETHNOLOGY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Derivation:

ethnologic; ethnological (of or relating to ethnology)

ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)

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