DIACHRONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diachrony mean? 

• DIACHRONY (noun)
  The noun DIACHRONY has 1 sense:

1. the study of linguistic change

  Familiarity information: DIACHRONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIACHRONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of linguistic change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics

Context example:

the synchrony and diachrony of language

Hypernyms ("diachrony" is a kind of...):

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Meronyms (parts of "diachrony"):

sound law (a law describing sound changes in the history of a language)

Domain member category:

derivation; deriving; etymologizing ((historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase)

Derivation:

diachronic (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)