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What does lexicology mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
  2. (countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
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You have a real knack for terminology, lexicology and technical subject matter.
Living dialects were seen to furnish a huge treasury of living data on phonology, lexicology, and other features of language that written texts could not furnish.
There is some disagreement on the definition of lexicology, as distinct from lexicography.
Discarding such ridiculous concerns as passing percentage and turnover ratio, and turning instead to the serious study of lexicology, well, the results are staggering.
Member of the lexicology committee for a multilingual lexical database project.
In the 1990s, following SSHRC-funded research on the Inuit language, Inuktitut, Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit asked Dorais to teach courses on the lexicology, grammar and sociolinguistics of the language.

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