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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?.Also see definition of "ethnology" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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