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单词 onomastics
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Definition of onomastics in English:

onomastics

plural noun ɒnəˈmastɪks
  • usually treated as singular The study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names.

    (研究专有名称,特别是人名的历史和起源的)专名学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the field of American Indian onomastics it is important to be able to date the creation or the earliest occurrence of a place name.
    • During the last few decades, there has been, for instance, a notable increase, within the field of onomastics, in the study of brand names, and the like, a scholarly pursuit of considerable merit, but is it concerned with names?
    • We're talking onomastics: for generations town planners have mistakenly thought that a street name has the power to beautify and - more importantly - gentrify.
    • Significant onomastics are part of the Ja-Bac team's stock in trade.
    • King finds her most conclusive support for this impulse not in the pages of critical journals, but instead in the theoretical writings on referential onomastics by Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Saul Kripke.
    • The chapters that follow deal with vocabulary, syntax, onomastics, phonology, English grammar and usage and, finally, literary language.
    • For those who aren't interested at all, onomastics is the study of names and their origins.
    • I have made a small contribution to onomastics myself: nearly two decades ago, in an idle moment, I had speculated in print about the accident of history that had given our then Prime Minister the magic of the Mahatma's surname.

Definition of onomastics in US English:

onomastics

plural noun
  • usually treated as singular The study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names.

    (研究专有名称,特别是人名的历史和起源的)专名学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the last few decades, there has been, for instance, a notable increase, within the field of onomastics, in the study of brand names, and the like, a scholarly pursuit of considerable merit, but is it concerned with names?
    • The chapters that follow deal with vocabulary, syntax, onomastics, phonology, English grammar and usage and, finally, literary language.
    • King finds her most conclusive support for this impulse not in the pages of critical journals, but instead in the theoretical writings on referential onomastics by Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Saul Kripke.
    • For those who aren't interested at all, onomastics is the study of names and their origins.
    • Significant onomastics are part of the Ja-Bac team's stock in trade.
    • I have made a small contribution to onomastics myself: nearly two decades ago, in an idle moment, I had speculated in print about the accident of history that had given our then Prime Minister the magic of the Mahatma's surname.
    • In the field of American Indian onomastics it is important to be able to date the creation or the earliest occurrence of a place name.
    • We're talking onomastics: for generations town planners have mistakenly thought that a street name has the power to beautify and - more importantly - gentrify.
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