Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The place-names of a country or district, or a register of such names.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The designation of position and direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
toponymy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the nomenclature of regional anatomy
- noun the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language
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Examples
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The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004), and in forthcoming books, with further explorations in onomatology (the study of names) and toponomy (the study of places).
Twilight Language Loren Coleman 2010
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On the other hand, Dr. Burrill's article on "Toponomy and Cultural History" is a very good example of how toponomy (and lexicography in general) and history can benefit from each other.
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