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Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toponomastics
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: onomastics
The nomenclature of anatomical regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toponomy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lexicology
the nomenclature of regional anatomy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: toponomy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: terminology, nomenclature, language
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
տեղանվանագիտություն
(teġanvanagitutʻyun)
— study of place names
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Armenian:
տոպոնիմիկա
(toponimika)
— study of place names
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Catalan:
toponímia
— study of place names
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Chinese Mandarin:
地名學 /地名学
(dìmíngxué)
— study of place names
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Danish:
toponymi
— study of place names
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Esperanto:
loknomstudo
— study of place names
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Esperanto:
toponimio
— study of place names
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Estonian:
toponüümia
— study of place names
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Finnish:
paikannimitutkimus
— study of place names
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Finnish:
toponomastiikka
— study of place names
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French:
toponymie
— study of place names
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Galician:
toponimia
— study of place names
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German:
Ortsnamenkunde
— study of place names
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German:
Ortsnamenforschung
— study of place names
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German:
Toponomastik
— study of place names
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German:
Toponymie
— study of place names
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German:
Toponymik
— study of place names
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Greek:
τοπωνυμιολογία
(toponymiología)
— study of place names
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Hindi:
स्थाननामिकी
(sthānnāmikī)
— study of place names
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Icelandic:
örnefnafræði
— study of place names
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Indonesian:
toponimi
— study of place names
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Irish:
logainmníocht
— study of place names
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Italian:
toponimia
— study of place names
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Japanese:
地名学
(chimeigaku)
— study of place names
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Korean:
지명학
(jimyeonghak)
— study of place names
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Malay:
toponimi
— study of place names
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Norwegian Bokmål:
toponymi
— study of place names
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Norwegian Bokmål:
stedsnavnsforskning
— study of place names
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Norwegian Bokmål:
stedsnavnsgransking
— study of place names
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
toponymi
— study of place names
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
stadnamnforsking
— study of place names
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
stadnamngransking
— study of place names
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Occitan:
toponimia
— study of place names
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Portuguese:
toponímia
— study of place names
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Russian:
топони́мика
(toponímika)
— study of place names
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Swedish:
toponymi
— study of place names
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Swedish:
ortnamnsforskning
— study of place names
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Swedish:
toponomastik
— study of place names
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Swedish:
geografisk onomatologi
— study of place names
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Tamil:
இடப்பெயர் ஆய்வு
(iṭappeyar āyvu)
— study of place names
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Vietnamese:
địa danh học
— study of place names
