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PALEOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paleography" is a kind of...):
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paleography"):
epigraphy (the study of ancient inscriptions)
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