say it: thee-AH-luh-jee
theology is a noun meaning "the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
“Jewish theology”
“Roman Catholic theology”
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the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
“he studied theology at Oxford”
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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 theology 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.