Associations to the word «Onomastics»

Wiktionary

ONOMASTICS, noun. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.

Dictionary definition

ONOMASTICS, noun. The branch of lexicology that studies the forms and origins of proper names.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope