ethnology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: eth=nol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

ethnology, n. [Gr. nation + -logy.].

 The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ethnology, n. the comparative scientific study of human peoples.

Derivative

ethnologic adj. ethnological adj. ethnologist n.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

ethnology

n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

ROGET THESAURUS

ethnology

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.