PHILATELY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The collection and study of postage stamps

Synonyms:

philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

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

aerophilately (the collection and study of airmail stamps)

Derivation:

philatelic; philatelical (of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists)

philatelist (a collector and student of postage stamps)