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onomasiologist

onomasiologist noun: a practitioner of onomasiology.

Noun

onomasiologist (plural onomasiologists)

  1. A practitioner of onomasiology
    • Historical onomasiology, interested in the sets of designations available for a given concept throughout time, must take both types of motives into account. The enlargement as well as the reduction of a set of possible designations for a concept are interesting for the onomasiologist.2002, Joachim Grzega, “Some aspects of modern diachronic onomasiology”, in Linguistics, volume 40, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1031

Forms of onomasiologist

pluralonomasiologists

Origin of onomasiologist

From onomasiology + -ist.

Questions about onomasiologist

What does onomasiologist mean?
Onomasiologist means a practitioner of onomasiology.
What part of speech is onomasiologist?
Onomasiologist is a noun.
What is the plural of onomasiologist?
The plural of onomasiologist is onomasiologists.

Words near onomasiologist in the dictionary

  1. onomantic
  2. onomantical
  3. onomasiologic
  4. onomasiological
  5. onomasiologically
  6. onomasiologist
  7. onomasiologists
  8. onomasiology
  9. onomast
  10. onomastic
  11. onomastica

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