Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of words; that branch of learning which treats of the forms, derivation, signification, and relations of words.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable (linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
- n. countable A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikos, "of words"), from λέξις (lexis, "a saying, speech, word"), from λέγειν (legein, "to speak") + -logy (Wiktionary)
- lexico(n) + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Packers lexicology -- using your best Pittsburgh/Wisconsin accents.”
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“Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State university who specializes in lexicology, said 'truthiness' means 'truthy, not facty.”
“Allah hath bounteously bestowed on thee a Barber who is an astrologer, one learned in alchemy and white magic; 612 syntax, grammar, and lexicology; the arts of logic, rhetoric and elocution; mathematics, arithmetic and algebra; astronomy, astromancy and geometry; theology, the”
“Maverannahr scholars made a great contribution to Arabic language dissemination, its analysis and Arabic literature development, which is proved by Mahmud Zamakhshari's works, including dozens of scientific papers, fiction, didactic treatises, the works on Arabic morphology, syntax, phonetics and lexicology.”
“That is one of the driving forces behind lexicology, and why it is so important: it helps us manage vocabulary change.”
“Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specializes in lexicology, said "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty.”
“As a writer and thus a "words" person (fuggedabout numbers!!), I love lexicology.”
“When, oh mighty Lords of lexicology, will Master Languagehat turn his gaze upon Mobilian?”
“I own and have read scores of monographs on lexicography, lexicographers, and lexicology.”
“Withal it was widely characterized not only by a lack of education in its ministry, but by a violent and brutal opposition to a learned clergy, which was particularly strange in a party the moiety of whose principles depends on a point in Greek lexicology.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lexicology’.
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
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Morphemes
morphemes greek and latin prefixes, suffixes and roots.
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JesusIsLord's Words
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
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technology, zymology, zygology, zoophytology, zoophysiology, zoopathology, zoonosology, zoology, zoogeology, zooarchaeology, xylology, vulcanology and 850 more...
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metalanguage
spoonerism, morphology, neologism, eggcorn, morpheme, phoneme, linguistics, retronym, phonology, syntax, discourse, lexicology and 3 more...
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Translation Studies
Useful words or abbreviations for students of translation to remember and refer to throughout their studies.
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