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

Hyphenated as

Wis‧sen‧schaft

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɪsənʃaft/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Er gilt als eigentlicher Begründer der archäologischen Wissenschaft und der antiquarischen Topographie.

He is regarded as the actual founder of archaeological science and antiquarian topography.