📝linguistics

noun
/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

Meaning

The scientific study of language and its structure.

Example Sentences

She decided to major in linguistics at university.

Synonyms

philology, semantics, grammar, language science

Antonyms

illiteracy, nonverbal studies

Collocations

linguistics department, applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics

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