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TROPOLOGY

Definition: TROPOLOGY

TROPOLOGY

Noun

1. A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tropology \Tro*pol"o*gy\, noun. [expression of Greek origin; trope discourse: compare to the French expression tropologie.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: TROPOLOGY

Language Translations for "TROPOLOGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mënyrë e shprehjes figurale. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тропология. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

képes beszéd (figurative language). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opologytray

   

Portuguese

  

tropologia. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

образная речь. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spis o tropama, figurativan (figurative), alegorično tumačenje svetog pisma. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tropología. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mecaz kullanma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

фігуральний спосіб вираження, тропологія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TROPOLOGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-l-o-o-o-p-r-t-y"

-1 letter: topology.

-2 letters: orology, otology.

-3 letters: oology, poorly, portly, prolog, protyl.

-4 letters: glory, goopy, loopy, ology, orlop, porgy, rooty, troop.

-5 letters: glop, goop, gorp, gory, grot, gyro, logo, logy, loop, loot, lory, orgy, plot, ploy, pogy, polo, poly, pool, poor, port, prog, root, ropy, rotl, roto, ryot, tool, toro, tory, toyo, trop, troy, typo, tyro.

 Words containing the letters "g-l-o-o-o-p-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: proctology.

 

+3 letters: anthropology, protozoology.

 

+4 letters: cryptozoology.

 

+5 letters: neuropathology, periodontology, tropologically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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