NOMENCLATURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

the language of sociology

Synonyms:

language; nomenclature; terminology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nomenclature" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nomenclature"):

markup language (a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document)

toponomy; toponymy (the nomenclature of regional anatomy)