Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The branch of science which relates to the rules to be observed in the formation of names or terms.
- noun The distinctive vocabulary used in any particular branch of study.
- noun A discourse or treatise on names, or the history of the names of persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of names or of their classification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the
origins ofnames ;onomastics .
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Examples
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The interesting and extensive field of personal onomatology -- the study of personal names -- cannot be entered upon exhaustively here.
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Land was to be undertaken solely for the purpose of bringing back living specimens of the five-spotted Arctic woodcock -- _Philohela quinquemaculata_ -- in order to add to our onomatology and our glossary of onomatopoeia an ontogenesis of this important but hitherto unstudied sub-species.
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In order to understand the onomatology question in medicine as it stands at present one has to read this book.
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However, before long physicians will discard much from our present medical onomatology that is ridiculous, absurd, incorrect, in short, unscientific, as, for instance, the designation typhoid fever.
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Look, for instance, at his ingenious quaintness in the matter of _onomatology_.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004), and in forthcoming books, with further explorations in onomatology (the study of names) and toponomy (the study of places).
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What makes this noteworthy is that Beal's post is largely about conspiratorial onomatology, or
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"word meaning" as you declare, but rather "onomastics" is the study of proper names and thus, "anonymous" is not strictly a fit object of onomatology.
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