The study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities.
synonym: palaeology.
Roget 122:
the past,
past time;
days of yore,
times of yore,
days of old,
times of old,
days past,
times past,
days gone by,
times gone by;
bygone days;
old times,
ancient times,
former times;
fore time;
the good old days,
the olden time,
good old time;
auld lang syne†;
eld†.
antiquity,
antiqueness†,
status quo;
time immemorial;
distance of time;
remote age,
remote time;
remote past;
rust of antiquity.
[study of the past]
paleontology,
paleography,
paleology†;
paleozoology;
palaetiology†,
archaeology;
paleogeography;
paleoecology;
paleobotany;
paleoclimatoogy;
archaism,
antiquarianism,
medievalism,
Pre-Raphaelitism;
paleography.
retrospect,
retrospection,
looking back,
memory
etc.
505.
laudator temporis acti [Lat.];
medievalist,
Pre-Raphaelite;
antiquary,
antiquarian;
archmologist
&c.;
Oldbuck,
Dryasdust.
ancestry
etc.
(paternity)
166.
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Roget 560:
language;
phraseology
etc.
569;
speech
etc.
582;
tongue,
lingo,
vernacular;
mother tongue,
vulgar tongue,
native tongue;
household words;
King's English,
Queen's English;
dialect
etc.
563.
confusion of tongues,
Babel,
pasigraphie†;
pantomime
etc.
(signs)
550;
onomatopoeia;
betacism†,
mimmation,
myatism†,
nunnation†;
pasigraphy†.
lexicology,
philology,
glossology†,
glottology†;
linguistics,
chrestomathy†;
paleology†,
paleography;
comparative grammar.
literature,
letters,
polite literature,
belles lettres [Fr.],
muses,
humanities,
literae humaniores [Lat.],
republic of letters,
dead languages,
classics;
genius of language;
scholarship
etc.
(scholar)
492.
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Roget 562:
word,
term,
vocable;
name
etc.
564;
phrase
etc.
566;
root,
etymon;
derivative;
part of speech
etc.
(grammar)
567;
ideophone†.
dictionary,
vocabulary,
lexicon,
glossary;
index,
concordance;
thesaurus;
gradus [Lat.],
delectus [Lat.].
etymology,
derivation;
glossology†,
terminology orismology†;
paleology
etc.
(philology)
560†.
lexicography;
glossographer
etc.
(scholar)
492;
lexicologist,
verbarian†.
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Polish: paleologia