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onomasticians

onomasticians is the plural of onomastician.

Meaning of onomastician

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

Questions about onomasticians

What is onomasticians the plural of?
Onomasticians is the plural of onomastician.

Words near onomasticians in the dictionary

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

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