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anthrop.

anthrop. is the abbreviation of anthropology.

anthrop. is the abbreviation of anthropological.

Meaning of anthropology

Noun

anthropology (countable and uncountable, plural anthropologies)

  1. The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
    • According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.
  2. The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in Christian anthropology.

Meaning of anthropological

Adjective

anthropological (comparative more anthropological, superlative most anthropological)

  1. Relating to anthropology.
    • Much of the film is a detached, almost anthropological, look at the lives of the women and men, both white and of color, who live in the slums and housing projects outside of Paris.1986 August 23, Michael Bronski, “Note This!”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 6, page 15
    Synonyms:
    anthropologic

Questions about anthrop.

What is anthrop. the abbreviation of?
Anthrop. is the abbreviation of anthropology.

Words near anthrop. in the dictionary

  1. anthromorphic
  2. anthrone
  3. anthrones
  4. anthrop
  5. anthrop-
  6. anthrop.
  7. anthroparchies
  8. anthroparchy
  9. anthroparian
  10. anthroparians
  11. anthropause

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthrop. (page history and authors); anthropology (page history and authors); anthropological (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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