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onomastician

onomastician noun: a person who studies onomastics; one who studies or researches names.

Noun

onomastician (plural onomasticians)

  1. A person who studies onomastics; one who studies or researches names.
    • The semantics of names vs. the semantics of words has been the most attractive and active field of inquiry in onomastics, investigating a large cultural variety of names and their embeddedness in many different languages. It is not surprising therefore that the onomastician’s closest ally is the...1984, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, “What Crisis in Onomastics?”, in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, volume 32, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 17
    • As an onomastician, I take it to be axiomatic that name choice in a great author’s works is a highly controlled and deliberate act.2006, Jeremy Parrott, “‘Change All the Names’: A Samuel Beckett onomasticon”, in il Nome nel testo. Rivista internazionale di onomastica letteraria, →ISSN, page 615

Examples of onomastician in a sentence

  • It is not surprising therefore that the onomastician’s closest ally is the lexicologist; the student of names is most easily understood by the student of words.1984, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, “What Crisis in Onomastics?”, in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, volume 32, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 17:
  • Shouldn’t the organisers have invited our only onomastician to give this keynote?2020, Bojosi Otlhogile, “‘A Name Tells a Story’: Botswana’s Place, Street and Landmark Names – A Layman’s Perspective”, in Botswana Notes...

Synonyms of onomastician

Forms of onomastician

pluralonomasticians

Origin of onomastician

From onomastic + -ian.

Questions about onomastician

What does onomastician mean?
Onomastician means a person who studies onomastics; one who studies or researches names.
How do you use onomastician in a sentence?
It is not surprising therefore that the onomastician’s closest ally is the lexicologist; the student of names is most easily understood by the student of words.
What part of speech is onomastician?
Onomastician is a noun.
What is the plural of onomastician?
The plural of onomastician is onomasticians.

Words near onomastician in the dictionary

  1. onomasiology
  2. onomast
  3. onomastic
  4. onomastica
  5. onomastically
  6. onomastician
  7. onomasticians
  8. onomasticide
  9. onomasticides
  10. onomasticon
  11. onomasticons

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