noun
Meaning 1
The study of volcanoes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
volcanology
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noun
Meaning 2
the branch of geology that studies volcanoes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vulcanology
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geophysics, geophysical science
History
Etymology
From French volcanologie, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcano + -logy.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: vulkanologiya — study of volcanoes
- Catalan: vulcanologia — study of volcanoes
- Chinese Mandarin: 火山學 /火山学 (huǒshānxué) — study of volcanoes
- Czech: vulkanologie — study of volcanoes
- Danish: vulkanologi — study of volcanoes
- Dutch: vulkanologie — study of volcanoes
- Esperanto: vulkanologio — study of volcanoes
- Esperanto: vulkanoscienco — study of volcanoes
- Finnish: vulkanologia — study of volcanoes
- Finnish: tulivuoritiede — study of volcanoes
- French: volcanologie — study of volcanoes
- Galician: vulcanoloxía — study of volcanoes
- German: Vulkanologie — study of volcanoes
- Greek: ηφαιστειολογία (ifaisteiología) — study of volcanoes
- Hebrew: וולקנולוגיה — study of volcanoes
- Irish: bolcáneolaíocht — study of volcanoes
- Italian: vulcanologia — study of volcanoes
- Japanese: 火山学 (kazangaku) — study of volcanoes
- Kazakh: жанартаунама (janartaunama) — study of volcanoes
- Korean: 화산학 (hwasanhak) — study of volcanoes
- Latin: vulcanologia — study of volcanoes
- Malay: kaji gunung berapi — study of volcanoes
- Malay: vulkanologi — study of volcanoes
- Māori: mātai puia — study of volcanoes
- Norwegian Bokmål: vulkanologi — study of volcanoes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vulkanologi — study of volcanoes
- Polish: wulkanologia — study of volcanoes
- Portuguese: vulcanologia — study of volcanoes
- Romanian: vulcanologie — study of volcanoes
- Russian: вулканоло́гия (vulkanológija) — study of volcanoes
- Spanish: vulcanología — study of volcanoes
- Swedish: vulkanologi — study of volcanoes
- Turkish: volkanoloji — study of volcanoes
- Ukrainian: вулканоло́гія (vulkanolóhija) — study of volcanoes
- Volapük: volkanav — study of volcanoes
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