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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: linguistics, philology
Narrower terms: onomastics, toponymy, toponomy
History
From Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγειν (légein, “to speak”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -logy.
Across languages
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