philately

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  1. noun The collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials; stamp collecting.

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  • The country currently has almost 50,000 philately associations, and universities in Fujian and Jiangxi offer elective courses in stamp collecting. —  Slate Magazine
  • His children felt the same way too, till they witnessed a philately exhibition and then they started supporting him. —  India eNews
  • Guests and participants are preparing for the philately event with a gala evening on Thursday.
  • Now that you've finally gotten rid of the taste of glue from your holiday-envelope-sealing marathon, allow me to direct you to an interesting bit of philately news: Although Elvis Presley's commemorative stamp was released back in 1993, no other has been able to top the —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Stamp is taking a fresh approach to expanding our hobby, by marketing the joys of philately in ways that introduce stamp collecting to children and adults that might otherwise never be exposed to the scope, magnitude, and incredible diversity of the tiny pieces of paper we collect. —  American Profile
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  1. French philatélie : Greek phil-, philo-, philo- + Greek ateleia, exemption from payment (because a postage stamp indicates prepayment of postage) (a-, without; see a-1 + telos, tax, charge; see telə- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French philatélie, intended to mean ‘the love of the study of all that concerns prepayment,’ i. e. of stamps, absurdly formed (by M. Herpin, a stamp-collector, in “Le Collectionneur,” in 1865) from Greek φίλος, loving (properly φιλεῑν, love), + ἀτελής, free of tax or charge (taken in the sense of ‘prepaid’), from ἀ- privative + τέλος, tax, duty.
 

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