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    PHILATELY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The collection and study of postage stampsplay

    Synonyms:

    philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

    aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

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

    aerophilately (the collection and study of airmail stamps)

    Derivation:

    philatelic; philatelical (of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists)

    philatelist (a collector and student of postage stamps)

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