Philology

What do we mean by philology?

Literary study or classical scholarship. noun

The love or the study of learning and literature; the investigation of a language and its literature, or of languages and literatures, for the light they cast upon men's character, activity, and history. noun

Criticism; grammatical learning. noun

The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science. noun

A treatise on the science of language. noun

The humanistic study of historical linguistics. noun

The humanistic study of language and literature noun

The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

(culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.

1. Study of language or literature. 2. Specifically, study of the languages and literatures of Classical Greece and Rome; study of Latin and Ancient Greek languages. See philologist Urban Dictionary

The science of Love or Love-making, as from the stem phil-, meaning love/enthusiasm (bibliophile = book-lover, pedophile = child-lover), and the suffix -ology, referring to a science (physchology and Biology for example). This is to be differentiated from a specific sort of philology as Romance Philology, the study of Latin (literally "The Science of Loving things Roman"). Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to philology:
philology, psilology, phonology, phycology, phenology, phytology, pelology, chirology, philologer, rhinology, photology, ophiology, pharology, syphilology, philologue, philologic, philologus, philologie.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word philology:
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Words that rhyme with philology:
xylology, psilology.

Adjectives that are often used to describe philology:
comparative, classical, modern, semitic, english, german, germanic, historical, european, greek, oriental, scientific, latin, biblical, slavic, arabic, indian, traditional, slavonic, celtic, century, ancient, french, chinese, polish, teutonic, sacred, medieval, russian, spanish, mere, critical, aryan, egyptian, scandinavian, pure, humanist, sound, sanskrit, african, classic, humanistic, barren, italian, iranian, irish, yiddish, nordic, vedic, accurate, romantic, turkish, hispanic, dynamic, textual, alexandrian, hungarian, indoeuropean, slav, ethnological, finnish, norse, anthropological, dravidian, ethnographical, lithuanian, dutch, orientalist, homeric, bulgarian, indonesian, armenian, catalan.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective philology:
study, dwight, philosophy, faculty, addresses.

Words that sound like philology:
philology, phonology, phenology, photology, phycology, phytology, physiology, philologist, theology, phrenology, full-fledged, full fledged, virology, falasha.