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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ethnology \Eth*nol"o*gy\n. [Gr. ? nation + -logy.]
   The science which treats of the division of mankind into
   races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the
   peculiarities which characterize them. Ethologic


The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

ETHNOLOGY, n.  The science that treats of the various tribes of Man,
as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and
ethnologists.