Definitions for semantics

semantics se·man·tics

Spelling: [si-man-tiks]
IPA: /sɪˈmæn tɪks/

Semantics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 658 anagrams from letters in semantics (aceimnsst).

Definitions for semantics

noun

  1. Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
  2. Also called significs. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.
  3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.:
  4. general semantics.

Origin of semantics

First recorded in 1895-1900; See origin at semantic, -ics

Examples for semantics

Take your pick; those were the only two systems of semantics which had been built up through the ages.

(e) semantics, which teaches us the meanings of words and forms.

In that sense, his defense may be correct but only as semantics.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour engaged in a battle of semantics with Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union.

Our teleprobes may leave something to be desired in the matter of semantics.

But the wiser voices in the movement know that, now, they face much graver problems than semantics.

Nathaniel Rich on why we should be worried—and how semantics have put us in danger.

He'd had a course of semantics in college and could see no relationship.

He could express it in the semantics of spiritism, or he could admit to witchcraft and sorcery.

Her disassociation with the feminist label and its negative connotations just boils down to semantics.

Word Value for semantics
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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