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onomasiologists

onomasiologists is the plural of onomasiologist.

Meaning of onomasiologist

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

Questions about onomasiologists

What is onomasiologists the plural of?
Onomasiologists is the plural of onomasiologist.

Words near onomasiologists in the dictionary

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

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