ethnography

1. 1.

   the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

   Synonymsdescriptive anthropology

   Broaderanthropology

Other forms of ethnography

plural

ethnographies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ethnography

What does ethnography mean?

ethnography means "the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies".

How many syllables are in ethnography?

ethnography has 4 syllables: eth-no-gra-phy. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for ethnography?

Close synonyms include descriptive anthropology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethnography a common word?

ethnography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.