Feminine

wetenschap

Meaning

  1. (feminine, no-diminutive, uncountable) knowledge
  2. (feminine, no-diminutive) science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through any scholarly method; totality of knowledge)
  3. (feminine, no-diminutive) any academic discipline; in general, the sciences and humanities taken as a whole

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋeːtənˌsxɑp/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch wetenschap. Equivalent to weten + -schap.

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