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semantics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun semantics has 2 senses
- semantics(n = noun.cognition) Array - the study of language meaning; Array is a kind of linguistics
- semantics(n = noun.cognition) Array - the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text; "a petty argument about semantics" is a kind of meaning, substance
has particulars: deixis, formal semantics, lexical semantics, cognitive semantics, conceptual semantics, semasiology
Derived forms adjective semantic1, noun semanticist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
semantics, n. sing. [Gr. shmantikos having meaning, from sh^ma a sign.].
- the study of the meanings of words and of the sense development of words; -- formerly called
semasiology . [PJC] - a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve one's interaction with others and one's environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols; -- also called
general semantics . [PJC] - the meanings of words as they are used to achieve an effect; especially, the multiple meanings of words or the multiplicity of words having the same meaning; -- used in referring to the confusion that can be caused (intentionally or unintentionally) by multiple meanings; as, there's no real difference, it's only a matter of semantics. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
semantics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning.
Derivative
semantician n. semanticist n.
THESAURUS
semantics
bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossography, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicography, lexicology, lexicostatistics, lexigraphy, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semasiology, semiotic, semiotics, significs, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics
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