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say it: sem-ee-AH-tiks
semiotics is a noun meaning "(philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols". It is pronounced /ˌsɛmiˈɑtɪks/ — sem-ee-AH-tiks. It carries one recorded sense.
(philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
philosophy
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 semiotics 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.