Crossword-Solution: PHILOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Philology | n. | Criticism; grammatical learning. |
| Philology | n. | 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. |
| Philology | n. | A treatise on the science of language. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PHILOLOGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Literary study | 1 answer |
| Study of a portentous woodchuck? | 1 answer |
| The study of the structure, historical development, and relationship of languages | 1 answer |
| Study of language | 2 answers |
| linguistics | 2 answers |
| SCIENCE of language | 4 answers |
| DERIVATION of words | 5 answers |
| etymology | 6 answers |
| MORPHOLOGY, subject of | 7 answers |
| grammar | 20 answers |
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Sentences with PHILOLOGY (5)
The fact that Imogen had shown rather marked capacity in certain esoteric lines of scholarship, and had decided to specialize in a well-sounding branch of philology at the Ecole des Chartes, had fairly placed her in that category of “interesting people” whom Flavia considered her natural affinities, and lawful prey.
Though the form-masters still taught French to the lower school, another master had come, with a degree of doctor of philology from the University of Heidelberg and a record of three years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek.
Absurd etymology was once the rule, because guessing without any knowledge of the historical forms of words was general; and still, in spite of the modern school of philology, which has shown us the right way, much wild guessing continues to be prevalent.
But it contains matters of much more importance than anything in connection with philology, and the literature and manners of nations.
The publisher introduced him to me as a gentleman scarcely less eminent in literature than in music, and me to him as an aspirant critic--a young gentleman scarcely less eminent in philosophy than in philology.
Quotes with PHILOLOGY (3)
You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish philology. You go and read outside your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. And then the most important thing, once you get any level of quality--get to the point where you wanna write, and you can write--is tell YOUR story. Don't tell a story anyone else can tell. Because you always start out with other people's voices... There will…
If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded them
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