diachronic stands for: used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
Usage Example(s): diachronic linguistics
Synonym(s): historical ( what does historical stand for? )
Opposite(s): descriptive ( what does descriptive stand for? ), synchronic ( what does synchronic stand for? )

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