linguistics
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
linguistics /lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] the scientific study of language and its structure.
– derivatives
linguistician /-ˈstɪʃ(ə)n/ noun.
linguistician /-ˈstɪʃ(ə)n/ noun.
'linguistics' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablaut
- acceptation
- acrolect
- acronym
- acute
- acute accent
- Æ
- agglutinate
- aitch
- aleph
- allograph
- allomorph
- alphabet
- alternant
- analphabetic
- analytic
- anglophone
- antepenult
- antonomasia
- antonym
- apheresis
- aphesis
- apocope
- argot
- argument
- ash
- assonance
- atonic
- Atticism
- augmentative
- back-formation
- back slang
- barbarism
- base
- Basic English
- basilect
- blend
- boustrophedon
- breathing
- breve
- Briticism
- by-form
- calque
- catachresis
- catchphrase
- cedilla
- circumflex
- cognate
- collocation
- colloquialism
