"word meaning" as you declare, but rather "onomastics" is the study of proper names and thus, "anonymous" is not strictly a fit object of onomatology. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Why does this onomastics stuff interest me so much?. From Wordnik.com. [Look out, behind you--more Emilys!] Reference
I think basely solely on my onomastics-are-destiny reaction to the name Leola that she was attracted to this pattern by the green print version. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Leola. - A Dress A Day] Reference
George R. Stewart (1895-1980), midcentury novelist and co-founder of the American Name Society, gave onomastics a good name with his classic "Names on the Land" (1945), a learned and rollicking act of patriotic toponymy. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Way From Dullsville] Reference
Yet onomastics between Etruscan, Latin and Greek prove once again that this assumption is false since Etruscan Χalχas is borrowed from Greek Κάλχας, Paχa is from Greek Βάκχος, leχtumuza is a diminutive based on a loan from Greek λήκυθος nb. From Wordnik.com. [Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe] Reference
No book in onomastics comparable to this one has been published in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference
Alfred J. Kolatch has been active in onomastics since at least 1948, when his first book on names appeared. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference
In some cases, of course, there are only some sections of the sources that deal with onomastics, and these are noted. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
There are no departments of toponymy, or even of onomastics that I know of, and no degrees are awarded in these fields. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2] Reference
Included among these are articles on American English, British English, dictionaries, style, children's speech, and onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2] Reference
I wish to make it known to the readers of VERBATIM, particularly those whose interests are in the areas of etymology and onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3] Reference
Having collected names for years, I was, like M. Jourdain, astonished to learn the term for what I'd been doing all along: onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference
Yet these elements seem to be more related to onomastics than those she has described in this paper and therefore make the reader anxious to know more. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
But in the time since Barthes, in a manner the semiotician may not have envisaged, that onomastics has descended from the heights of myth and epic having the status of Greek gods. From Wordnik.com. [Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org] Reference
It isn't clear to this reviewer just what place the Litt article, "Self-Naming and Self-Defining in Subscriptions to Familiar Letters in the English Renaissance," is supposed to have in onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
The numerous errors, and I have mentioned only a few detract from the worth of the dictionary and exasperate someone slightly familiar with the scholarship of onomastics and with the rudiments of proofreading. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference
The editor introduces this section — "Names in Literature" — by stating the purpose of it, namely, which is "to ask if the study of imaginary personages and places does not properly belong to onomastics." (p. 127.). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
Although the book is a bit heavy with such items, they are by no means overwhelming, and, even if you are a subscriber to Word Ways, you ought to have a copy of Names and Games if only to have such a wealth of material on onomastics in one place. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1] Reference
Marion R. Hemperley of the Georgia Surveyor General Department and Francis Lee Utley, late of the Ohio State University, have edited 135 of these essays to give both the general reader and the specialist in onomastics a thoroughly delightful volume. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2] Reference
Operacion Puerto and its onomastics is not related to heroics, but to bags of frozen blood, and the mystery of their identity and the performances they produced - Names such as Birillo, Amigo de Birillo, USA, Hijo de Rudicio, and Piti, treatments such as Siberia, Vino. From Wordnik.com. [Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org] Reference
The study of names is called onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Nationality politics turned into onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
To the onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [Anorak News] Reference
It's called onomastics. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Language, onomastics. From Wordnik.com. [Beliebte Vornamen 2007 (Popular First Names 2007)] Reference
Bathroom, language, onomastics, pop culture. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The study of names -- onomastics -- is a fascinating one. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1] Reference
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