Professor Smith is recognized to be one of the greatest scholars in English philology.
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Philology
//fɪˈlɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ//
Synonyms for "philology" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (16)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesderived
13 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesholonym
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- filologie noun (philology)
Albanian
1 entries- filologji noun (philology)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φιλολογία noun (philology)
Arabic
2 entries- عِلْمُ فِقْهِ اللُّغَة noun (philology)
- فِقْهُ اللُّغَة noun (philology)
Armenian
1 entries- բանասիրություն noun (philology)
Asturian
1 entries- filoloxía noun (philology)
Belarusian
2 entries- філало́гія noun (philology)
- філёлё́гія noun (philology)
Bulgarian
1 entries- филоло́гия noun (philology)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝေါဟာရဗေဒ noun (philology)
Catalan
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 文字學 /文字学 noun (philology)
- 語文學 /语文学 noun (philology)
Czech
1 entries- filologie noun (philology)
Danish
1 entries- filologi noun (philology)
Dutch
1 entries- filologie noun (philology)
Esperanto
1 entries- filologio noun (philology)
Estonian
1 entries- filoloogia noun (philology)
Faroese
1 entries- málfrøði noun (philology)
Finnish
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
French
1 entries- philologie noun (philology)
Galician
1 entries- filoloxía noun (philology)
Georgian
1 entries- ფილოლოგია noun (philology)
German
1 entries- Philologie noun (philology)
Greek
1 entries- φιλολογία noun (philology)
Hebrew
1 entries- פִילוֹלוֹגְיָה noun (philology)
Hindi
1 entries- भाषाशास्त्र noun (philology)
Hungarian
1 entries- filológia noun (philology)
Icelandic
1 entries- textafræði noun (philology)
Ido
1 entries- filologio noun (philology)
Indonesian
1 entries- filologi noun (philology)
Interlingua
1 entries- philologia noun (philology)
Irish
1 entries- focleolaíocht noun (philology)
Italian
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
Japanese
1 entries- 文献学 noun (philology)
Khmer
1 entries- និរុត្តិសាស្ត្រ noun (philology)
Korean
1 entries- 문헌학 noun (philology)
Latvian
1 entries- filoloģija noun (philology)
Lithuanian
1 entries- filologija noun (philology)
Macedonian
1 entries- филоло́гија noun (philology)
Malay
4 entries- filologi noun (philology)
- kaji bahasa noun (philology)
- فيلولوݢي noun (philology)
- کاجي بهاس noun (philology)
Maltese
1 entries- filoloġija noun (philology)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- filologi noun (philology)
Occitan
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
Old French
1 entries- philologie noun (philology)
Persian
1 entries- فیلولوژی noun (philology)
Polish
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
Portuguese
1 entries- filologia noun (philology)
Romanian
1 entries- filologie noun (philology)
Russian
1 entries- филоло́гия noun (philology)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- filològija noun (philology)
- jezikoznànstvo noun (philology)
Sicilian
1 entries- filuluggìa noun (philology)
Slovak
1 entries- filológia noun (philology)
Slovene
1 entries- filologija noun (philology)
Spanish
1 entries- filología noun (philology)
Swahili
1 entries- filolojia noun (philology)
Swedish
1 entries- filologi noun (philology)
Tagalog
1 entries- palawikaan noun (philology)
Thai
1 entries- นิรุกติศาสตร์ noun (philology)
Turkish
2 entries- dil bilimi noun (philology)
- filoloji noun (philology)
Turkmen
1 entries- filologiýa noun (philology)
Udmurt
1 entries- кылосбур noun (philology)
Ukrainian
1 entries- філоло́гія noun (philology)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bác ngữ học noun (philology)
- ngôn ngữ học noun (philology)
- ngữ văn noun (philology)
Welsh
2 entries- ffiloleg noun (philology)
- ieitheg noun (philology)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿילאָלאָגיע noun (philology)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Philology and medicine were named by Nietzsche to be "the two great opponents of all superstition".
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From a translation I demand that it combine fidelity with sonority, and that it incorporate the genius of the language that it is written in, and not that of the original language. A good translator, therefore, needs to be intimately acquainted with the philology of a language pair.
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I'm teaching in the philology department.
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