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A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
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Alternative form of Aeolism [(uncountable) The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.]
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Alternative spelling of analysand [A person who undergoes psychoanalysis; one who is analysed.]
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Relating to annotation.
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(lexicography) An earlier citation of a lexical item.
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The name of a person, especially a surname.
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The study of personal names.
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A placename derived from the name of a person
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(rare) Of or pertaining to aptonymy.
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(linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
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Being, pertaining to, or as an autonym.
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Being or pertaining to a capitonym.
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(literature) Of, or relating to, a charactonym (a fitting name of a character).
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A type of toponym representing the name of a region, country or any other territory.
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Of or relating to a cognomen.
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(linguistics, now deprecated) The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have fallen into disuse in the original language.
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(linguistics) An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language constructs is from the corpus (existing body of literature) of the language
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The use or study of demonyms.
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Uncommon spelling of oikonym. [A type of toponym denoting a settlement or its part.]
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The use of the name for a group or geographic region by its members or inhabitants, as opposed to the nomenclature used by outsiders.
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Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.
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(linguistics) the naming of people, the creation of ethnonyms
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A proposed subdiscipline of etymology, investigating the context in which words of transparent etymology underwent semantic development.
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A word derived from etyma in two or more source languages; especially a word combining both Latin and Ancient Greek elements, such as quadrilogy, oscilloscope, or automobile.
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Being or pertaining to an exonym.
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Of or pertaining to an exonym.
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The nomenclature of place names.
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The use of multiple names for a single person or thing; polyonymy
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(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
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(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
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Synonym of hybrid learning
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Of or pertaining to illocution.
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(linguistics) the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language
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(uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
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(very rare) The toponym of a lake.
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The name of a language; a glossonym.
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(obsolete, rare, uncountable) Synonym of transliteration
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(linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography
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metalinguistic talk about the analytic, synthetic, and normative language of politics
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(by extension) A concept, idea, or word used to represent, typify, or stand in for a broader set of ideas.
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Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
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(often in combination) Having a moniker.
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The use of one-word names.
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(psychiatry) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
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The assignment of a new meaning to an existing word
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The invention of new placenames
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Relating to nomenclature.
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Relating to nomenclature.
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Of or pertaining to nomenclature.
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The study of street names.
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Uncommon spelling of oikonym. [A type of toponym denoting a settlement or its part.]
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A type of toponym denoting a settlement or its part.
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Of or relating to a personal or place name.
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A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
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(rare, lexicography) Technical terms collectively; terminology.
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The naming of birds; the creation of common names for birds; the use of bird names.
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A word or phrase that sounds the same as another word or phrase.
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The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
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A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscured, or if recently used: possibly having a definition or implication different from that of any earlier usage.
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The use of a preexisting word in a new context.
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(linguistics) A compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements; a loanblend.
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The use of many names for the same thing or person.
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(prescriptive, uncommon) The first/original entity after which another entity is named without the entities being related. If the entities are related, then the original entity is the eponym of the subsequent entities.
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(linguistics) The desire to use words and forms derived from what is considered the native element in a given language instead of elements considered borrowed or foreign.
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The belief that semantics is central to grammar.
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(linguistics) The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
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(linguistics) The theory that creoles take their structure from their substrate languages.
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(linguistics) Any valid analysis of a word's morphology regardless of whether it represents its etymology in the strict sense of that word (that is, the historical origin); for example, the word biology has a surface analysis of bio- + -logy although it was not coined as the combination of those combining forms (in fact predating them). The word can validly be viewed as an example of words ending in the suffix -ology even though it was not coined as one (whereas many analogous but newer words were thus coined, such as immunology).
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(grammar) In transformational grammar, the belief that deep and surface structures are similar.
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(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
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(linguistics) An anagram that is also a synonym (or near-synonym); a synonymous anagram.
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Obsolete form of systematics. [The study of classification systems and nomenclature.]
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The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
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(uncountable) The science or study of systematizing
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The cultural practice of referring to parents by the names of their children.
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The scientific study of such terms.
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Alternative spelling of toponymy [(semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.]
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(less common) A word derived from the name of a place.
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(semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.
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A protologism that provides a shorter way of saying something.
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Synonym of active vocabulary
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