PHILOLOGY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The humanistic study of language and literature

Synonyms:

linguistics; philology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

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

dialectology (the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects)

lexicology (the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language)

Derivation:

philological (of or relating to or dealing with philology)

philologist (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)