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archæastronomy

archæastronomy is the obsolete form of archaeastronomy.

Meaning of archaeastronomy

Noun

archaeastronomy (uncountable)

  1. The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
    • Archaeoastronomy is an endeavor to find out something about ancient astronomy and related matters through the use of archeological data and the study of ancient texts.1979, John Howland Rowe, “Review: Archaeoastronomy in Meso America and Peru”, in Latin American Research Review, volume 14, number 2, page 227

Questions about archæastronomy

What is archæastronomy the obsolete form of?
Archæastronomy is the obsolete form of archaeastronomy.

Words near archæastronomy in the dictionary

  1. archwizards
  2. archwork
  3. archy
  4. archæ-
  5. Archæan
  6. archæastronomy
  7. archæbacteria
  8. archæbacterium
  9. archæic
  10. archæism
  11. archæisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archæastronomy (page history and authors); archaeastronomy (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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