LEXICOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lexicology mean? 

• LEXICOLOGY (noun)
  The noun LEXICOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language

  Familiarity information: LEXICOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEXICOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

linguistics; philology (the humanistic study of language and literature)

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

onomastics (the branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names)

toponomy; toponymy (the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language)

Derivation:

lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)