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English

Alternative forms

• pedlar (British)
• pedler (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin ped?rius, from Latin ped?re (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).

Noun

peddler (plural peddlers)

1. An itinerant seller of small goods.

   Synonyms: hawker, (obsolete) chapman, huckster, monger, colporteur, solicitor

2. A drug dealer.
3. (figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

Derived terms

• peddle (back-formation)

Translations

Further reading

• peddler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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