Ethnology

Definition: Ethnology

Ethnology

Noun

1. The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics.

Date "ethnology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Ethnology \Eth*nol"o*gy\n. [Greek expression nation -logy.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Health	The comparative and theoretical study of culture, often synonymous with cultural anthropology. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Ethnology

Synonym: Social anthropology. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mankind	Anthropography, anthroposophy; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ethnology

English words defined with "ethnology": Craniology ♦ ethnologic, ethnological, ethnologist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ethnology": Caucasians ♦ Ethnology ♦ social and behavioral science, social and behavioural science. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Dictionary of the Osage Language (Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology, 109) (reference) After Empire: Towards an Ethnology of Europe's Barbarians (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology) (reference) Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology) (reference) Fascinating Challenges: Studying Material Culture With Dorothy Burnham (Mercury Series-Canadian Ethnology Service, 136) (reference) Profiles in Ethnology (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Archaeology Ethnology & Anthropology Of Eurasia (reference) Japanese Journal Of Ethnology (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ethnology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ethnology" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	25	69,787

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ethnology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		etnologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏علم الأعراق البشرية. (various references)

Bulgarian		етнология. (various references)

Chinese		民俗学. (various references)

Czech		etnologie. (various references)

Danish		ethnologi. (various references)

Dutch		rassenkunde. (various references)

Farsi		نژادشناسی , علم مطالعه نژادهاواقوام . (various references)

Finnish		kansatiede. (various references)

French		ethnologie. (various references)

German		Völkerkunde. (various references)

Greek		εθνολογία. (various references)

Hebrew		תורת �"עמים ו�"�'זעים (ethnography). (various references)

Hungarian		összehasonlító néprajz. (various references)

Indonesian		etnologi, ilmu bangsa. (various references)

Italian		etnologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		人種学 , 民族学 , エスキモー犬 (aesthetic, escape, escort, escort girl, Eskimo dog, ESPer, Esperanto, esprit, esprit nouveau, esquire, establishment, estate, ester, esterase, esthetic, esthetic salon, estheticien, Estonia, estrogen, estrone, es-zet, eternal, eternity, ethnic, ethnic fashion, ethnic food, ethnic group, ethnic look, ethnicism, ethnicity, ethno, ethology, expresso, hope, one who has ESP, S size, sauce Espagnole, science of animal behaviour, Short Take-Off and Landing, small size, STOL). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エスノロジー , じ�"しゅがく, み�"ぞくがく (folklore). (various references)

Korean		인종학. (various references)

Manx		kynney-oaylleeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		ethnologyay

Portuguese		etnologia (ethos), etnológico (ethnic, ethnical). (various references)

Romanian		etnologie. (various references)

Russian		этнология. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		etnologija. (various references)

Spanish		etnología. (various references)

Swedish		etnologi. (various references)

Thai		ชาติพันธุ์วิทยา. (various references)

Turkish		etnoloji, ırkbilim. (various references)

Ukranian		етнологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		dân tộc học. (various references)

Welsh		ethnyddiaeth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Ethnology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ethanology, etheology, ethiology, ethmology, etnology, tehnology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ethnology" (pronounced ethnÄ"lujē)
6	-n Ä" l u j ē	biotechnology, chronology, criminology, dendrochronology, endocrinology, Hymnology, immunology, limnology, penology, terminology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, cardiology, cosmetology, cytology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, ideology, kinesiology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-l-n-o-o-t-y"
	-1 letter: ethology, theogony, theology.
	-2 letters: enology, lengthy, neology, thegnly, theolog.
	-3 letters: gently, gentoo, gooney, length, looney, oogeny.
	-4 letters: ethyl, gooey, goony, helot, holey, honey, hooey, hooly, hooty, hotel, hotly, hoyle, lento, longe, looey, loony, ology, thegn, thole, thong, toney, toyon.
	-5 letters: enol, gelt, gent, glen, gley, gone, goon, helo, hent, hole, holt, holy, hone, hong, hoot.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-l-n-o-o-t-y"
	+1 letter: technology.
	+4 letters: biotechnology, helminthology.
	+5 letters: anesthesiology, antitechnology, cytotechnology, nanotechnology, neuropathology, photogenically.
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