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wordlore

noun

Etymology

From word + lore. Compare Old English wordlār (“verbal teaching or instruction”).

  1. inherited from *laizō✻
  2. inherited from *laiʀu✻
  3. inherited from lār
  4. inherited from lore
  5. compounded as wordlore — “word + lore”

Definitions

  1. The science, study, or knowledge of words.

    • Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) natually enabled him to do.
    • Alcohol wordlore and folklore: Being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associated with the use […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordlore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA