Feminine

Wissenschaft

Meaning

  1. (countable, feminine) science (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) science, the sciences taken as a whole
  3. (feminine, uncountable) academia, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method; totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry)
  4. (feminine, uncountable) academia, academic community
  5. (feminine, obsolete, uncountable) knowledge, cognizance

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪsənʃaft/
Etymology

In summary

From late Middle High German wissenschaft (“certificate”); by surface analysis, Wissen (“knowledge”) + -schaft (“-ship; making”). Akin to Dutch wetenschap, Low German Wetenschop, West Frisian wittenskip, Danish videnskab, Norwegian Bokmål vitenskap and Swedish vetenskap.

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