Definitions for linguistics

linguistics lin·guis·tics

Spelling: [ling-gwis-tiks]
IPA: /lɪŋˈgwɪs tɪks/

Linguistics is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in linguistics (cgiiilnsstu).

Definitions for linguistics

noun

  1. the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.

Origin of linguistics

First recorded in 1850-55; See origin at linguistic, -ics

Examples for linguistics

The fate of linguistics, therefore, turned on a simple twist of chance.

But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or anthropology.

A further proof of the antiquity of the migrations is afforded by linguistics.

Its scope was not restricted to the study of meteors, for it accepted papers on ethnology, linguistics, etc.

In linguistics, scholars discuss written- versus spoken-language paradigms.

I realized that this guy, who is on the left edge of politics, has this career in linguistics.

Had not a "universal religion" better let linguistics alone?

The court held—I think quite sensibly—that the issue turned on substance rather than linguistics.

The labors of the two brothers, too numerous to cite here, concerned also ethnography and linguistics.

All such efforts are inconsistent with correct methods in linguistics.

Word Value for linguistics
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14

Words with friends

19

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