Paleography

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.
  • n. The documents whose writing is so studied.
  • n. The manner of writing in an earlier, especially ancient, document or set of documents.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Ancient forms of writing, as in a manuscript or document.
  • n. Paleogeography.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively.
  • n. The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An ancient manner of writing; or, more generally, ancient methods of writing collectively.
  • n. The science or art of deciphering ancient documents or writing, including the knowledge of the various characters used at different periods by the scribes of different nations and languages, their usual abbreviations, etc.; the study of ancient written documents and modes of writing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    archæology    archeology   
    Hyponym
    epigraphy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    diplomatics   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    archivist    paleontology   
     
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