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terminology

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
  • Canada, dialectal: /ˌtɝ.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ of the US
  • Australian: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/
  • New-Zealand: [ˌtøː.məˈnɔ̟l.ə.d͡ʒi]
  • CMU ARPABET: T ER2 M IH0 N AA1 L AH0 JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The scientific study of such terms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • legal terminology
  • biological nomenclature
  • the language of sociology

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nomenclature, language

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: word

Narrower terms: markup language, toponymy, toponomy

History

Etymology

From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).

Across languages

Translations

136 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: terminologji — treatise on terms
  • Arabic: عِلْمُ المُصْطَلَحِ (ʕilmu l-muṣṭalaḥi) — treatise on terms
  • Armenian: տերմինաբանություն (terminabanutʻyun) — treatise on terms
  • Asturian: terminoloxía — treatise on terms
  • Belarusian: тэрмінало́гія (terminalóhija) — treatise on terms
  • Belarusian: тэрміналёгія (terminaljóhija) — treatise on terms
  • Bulgarian: терминоло́гия (terminológija) — treatise on terms
  • Catalan: terminologia — treatise on terms
  • Chinese Mandarin: 術語學 /术语学 (shùyǔxué) — treatise on terms
  • Czech: terminologie — treatise on terms
  • Danish: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Dutch: terminologie — treatise on terms
  • Esperanto: terminologio — treatise on terms
  • Estonian: terminoloogia — treatise on terms
  • Finnish: terminologia — treatise on terms
  • French: terminologie — treatise on terms
  • Galician: terminoloxía — treatise on terms
  • Georgian: ტერმინოლოგია (ṭerminologia) — treatise on terms
  • German: Terminologie — treatise on terms
  • Greek: ορολογία (orología) — treatise on terms
  • Hebrew: טֶרְמִינוֹלוֹגְיָה (terminológya) — treatise on terms
  • Hindi: शब्दावली (śabdāvlī) — treatise on terms
  • Hungarian: terminológia — treatise on terms
  • Ido: terminaro — treatise on terms
  • Indonesian: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Indonesian: peristilahan — treatise on terms
  • Italian: terminologia — treatise on terms
  • Khmer: យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (yeatta’sap viccie) — treatise on terms
  • Korean: 술어학 (sureohak) — treatise on terms
  • Latvian: terminoloģija — treatise on terms
  • Lithuanian: terminologija — treatise on terms
  • Macedonian: терминологија (terminologija) — treatise on terms
  • Malay: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Malay: peristilahan — treatise on terms
  • Norwegian Bokmål: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Iranian Persian: اِصْطِلاحشِناسی (estelâh-šenâsi) — treatise on terms
  • Iranian Persian: تِرْمینولوژی (terminoloži) — treatise on terms
  • Polish: terminologia — treatise on terms
  • Portuguese: terminologia — treatise on terms
  • Romanian: terminologie — treatise on terms
  • Russian: терминоло́гия (terminológija) — treatise on terms
  • Serbo-Croatian: terminològija — treatise on terms
  • Serbo-Croatian: nàzivoslōvlje — treatise on terms
  • Slovak: terminológia — treatise on terms
  • Slovene: terminologija — treatise on terms
  • Spanish: terminología — treatise on terms
  • Swedish: terminologi — treatise on terms
  • Tagalog: katawagan — treatise on terms
  • Udmurt: нимкыллык (ńimkyllyk) — treatise on terms
  • Udmurt: удыскыллык (udyskyllyk) — treatise on terms
  • Udmurt: терминология (ťerminologija) — treatise on terms
  • Ukrainian: терміноло́гія (terminolóhija) — treatise on terms
  • Albanian: terminologji — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Arabic: مُصْطَلَح (muṣṭalaḥ) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Asturian: terminoloxía — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Azerbaijani: terminologiya — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Belarusian: тэрмінало́гія (terminalóhija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Belarusian: тэрміналёгія (terminaljóhija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Bengali: পরিভাষা (poribhaśa) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Bulgarian: терминоло́гия (terminológija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Catalan: terminologia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 用語 /用语 (yòngyǔ) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 術語 /术语 (shùyǔ) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Czech: názvosloví — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Czech: terminologie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Danish: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Dutch: terminologie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Estonian: terminoloogia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Finnish: termistö — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Finnish: käsitteistö — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Finnish: terminologia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • French: terminologie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Galician: terminoloxía — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • German: Terminologie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • German: Fachsprache — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Greek: ορολογία (orología) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Hindi: शब्दावली (śabdāvlī) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Hindi: पारिभाषिकी (pāribhāṣikī) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Hungarian: szaknyelv — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Hungarian: szakkifejezések — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Icelandic: íðorðafræði — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Ido: terminaro — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Indonesian: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Indonesian: peristilahan — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Irish: téarmaíocht — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Italian: terminologia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Japanese: 用語 (yōgo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Japanese: 専門語 (semmongo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Japanese: 術語 (jutsugo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Kazakh: терминология (terminologiä) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Khmer: យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (yeatta’sap viccie) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Khmer: បច្ចេកសព្ទ (pacceeka’ sap) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Khmer: យត្តស័ព្ទ (yeatta’sap) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Korean: 전문 용어 (jeonmun yong'eo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Korean: 용어 (yong'eo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Korean: 전문어 (jeonmuneo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Kyrgyz: терминология (terminologiya) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Latvian: terminoloģija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Lithuanian: terminologija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Lithuanian: terminija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Macedonian: терминологија (terminologija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Malay: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Malay: peristilahan — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Maltese: terminoloġija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Mongolian: нэр томьёо (ner tomʹjoo) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Norwegian Bokmål: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Iranian Persian: اِصْطِلاح (estelâh) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Iranian Persian: اِصْطِلاحات (estelâhât) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Polish: terminologia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Portuguese: terminologia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Romanian: terminologie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Russian: терминоло́гия (terminológija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Scots: terminology — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: терминоло̀гија — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: на́зӣвље — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: terminològija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: názīvlje — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Slovak: názvoslovie — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Slovak: terminológia — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Slovene: terminologija — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Spanish: terminología — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Swahili: istilahi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Swedish: terminologi — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Tagalog: katawagan — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Tagalog: tawag — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Tajik: истилоҳ (istiloh) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Tajik: истилоҳот (istilohot) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Thai: ศัพท์เฉพาะ (sàp-chà-pɔ́) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Turkish: terminoloji — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Ukrainian: терміноло́гія (terminolóhija) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Urdu: اِصْطِلاحات (istilāhāt) — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Uzbek: terminologiya — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Uzbek: istiloh — terms used in any business, art, etc
  • Uzbek: istilohot — terms used in any business, art, etc
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