<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with a singular verb) Linguistics. the study of meaning.</li><li>the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.</li><li>Also called significs.</li><li>the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.</li><li>the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.: Let's not argue about semantics.</li><li>general semantics.</li></ul>