linguistics
/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
linguistics
English
Noun Top 41,758
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Definition
The systematic and scholarly study of language.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin lingua English -ist English linguist English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.
Example Sentences
- "a branch of linguistics"
- "to study linguistics"
- "By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical."
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