symbology
Americannoun
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the study of symbols.
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the use of symbols; symbolism.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of symbology
First recorded in 1830–40; by haplology, symbolo- (combining form of symbol ) + -logy
Example Sentences
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It would seem, then, that as long as you root the symbology of this flag in what George Washington thought the flag meant in 1775, you’re gold, Ponyboy.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
As a grand statement on America — the kind the album’s cover sets you up for with its striking stars-and-bars symbology — “Cowboy Carter” feels a bit mushy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
The show charts his progression into increasingly florid work — near-cryptic symbology woven into baroque, calligraphic abstraction, which he made nearly until his death in 2019.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
The bird “is enshrined in our earliest, pre-contact symbology and their influence on our cultural activities remains to this day,” said a letter signed by Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. on Jan. 18.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
It was a matter not so much of gathering data as of inventing a rigorous self-correcting symbology and our paramathematics seems to be just that.
From The Sensitive Man by Anderson, Poul William
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