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Meaning of philology

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

philology

Pronunciation:/fɪˈlɒlədʒɪ/

noun

Definitions

  1. The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

  2. Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

  3. (culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/philology

Related words

linguisticslinguisticlanguagelanguageshistorical linguisticscomparative linguisticsdialectologyetymology