geology

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiˈɑ.lə.dʒi/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks

Etymology

From geo- + -logy, partly after Renaissance Latin geōlogia, from Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + Latin -logia (“the study of”), from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía).

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
earth science
Narrower (hyponyms)
mineralogy, stratigraphy, orology, economic geology, hypsography, paleogeology

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