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PALEOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paleography mean?
• PALEOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun PALEOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)
Familiarity information: PALEOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paleography" is a kind of...):
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paleography"):
epigraphy (the study of ancient inscriptions)
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