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chowter |
choy root |
chrematistics |
chreotechnics |
chrestomathic |
chrestomathy
| chris evert
| chrism
| chrismal
| chrismation
| chrismatory
chrestomathy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chrestomathy has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
chrestomathy, n. [Gr. ; useful + , , to learn.].
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chrestomathy, n. (pl. -ies) a selection of passages used esp. to help in learning a language.
Etymology
F chrestomathie or Gk khrestomatheia f. khrestos useful + -matheia learning
ROGET THESAURUS
chrestomathy
Language
N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.
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