ethnology

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

From ethno- + -logy.

[Adapted from Bureau of Ethnology.] — The Brown Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
What evidence is there that can control the evidence of ethnology? — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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