ethnology Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

WordNet


Eth*nol"o*gy noun
Etymology
Gr. nation + -logy.
Definitions
  1. The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

Webster 1913