Associations to the word «Toponymy»

Wiktionary

TOPONYMY, noun. Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics

Dictionary definition

TOPONYMY, noun. The nomenclature of regional anatomy.
TOPONYMY, noun. The branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne