subject area, n.
a branch of knowledge
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 34 freq. cnt.: 18 freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2
bailiwick discipline field field of study study subject subject area subject field
sample sentences
"in what discipline is his doctorate?""teachers should be well trained in their subject"
"anthropology is the study of human beings"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hyponym
occultism
communications, communication theory
major
frontier
genealogy
allometry
bibliotics
ology
science, scientific discipline
architecture
landscape architecture
engineering, technology, engineering science, applied science
futurology, futuristics
arts, liberal arts, humanistic discipline, humanities
theology, divinity
military science
escapology
graphology
numerology
protology
theogony
hypernym