philology

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] the scientific study of the development of language or of a particular language philological adjective

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

philologyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary philologyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary philologyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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philanderer philandering philanthropist philanthropy philatelist philately -phile philharmonic -philia philistine philo-

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