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say it: eth-NAH-luh-jee
ethnology is a noun meaning "the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics". It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ethnology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.