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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The science of languages, or of the origin and history of words; the general and comparative study of human languages and of their elements. Also called comparative philology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The scientific study of language.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the humanistic study of language and literature
  2. n. the scientific study of language

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