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vexillology

vexillology

English

Noun

vexillology ‎(uncountable)

The study of flags
Vexillology can help us to delve into national and global history.
- 2012 January 26, Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik as Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler, “The Beta Test Initiation”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 5, episode 14, , 0:18:
  Sheldon: Over the next few 52 weeks, you and I are going to explore the dynamic world of vexillology.
  Amy: Hang on, Dr. C. What's vexillology?
  Sheldon: Vexillology is the study of flags.

Related terms

Translations

study of flags

Armenian: դրոշագիտություն ‎(drošagitutʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旗幟學, 旗帜学 ‎(qízhìxué)
Esperanto: veksilologio
Finnish: lipputiede, veksillologia (fi)
French: vexillologie (fr) f
Galician: vexiloloxía f
German: Vexillologie (de) f, Flaggenkunde f, Fahnenkunde f
Greek: σημαιολογία (el) f ‎(simaiología), λαβαρολογία (el) f ‎(lavarología)
Hungarian: vexillológia, zászlótan

Irish: brateolaíocht f
Japanese: 旗章学 ‎(kishōgaku)
Malay: kaji bendera, veksilologi
Portuguese: vexilologia (pt) f
Russian: вексиллоло́гия f ‎(veksillológija)
Serbo-Croatian: zastavoslovlje n
Spanish: vexilología f
Swedish: vexillologi c
Turkish: bayrak bilimi (tr)

References

2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572
“Vexillology, n.”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
“vexillology” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
“vexillology” in Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, © 2008 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.