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| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocabulary, voice, word, wording, brogue, doublespeak, lingua franca, verbalization, vocalization |
| Notes: | don't use 'language' when you mean 'writing system' - Chinese is a spoken language with no characters; the Chinese writing system uses thousands of characters |
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| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Tudesque, allophyllan, analytic, aphoristic, argotic, aureate, axiomatic, belletristic, bilingual, colloquial, conditional, conjugate, copulative, coradicate, current, cursive, derivative, diachronic, dialectic, diglot, effable, elliptical, emphatic, epicene, euphemism, euphuistic, expressed, factitive, feuilletonistic, flowery, formal, fustian, gazooly, glottogonic, grammatical, grandiloquent, heteroclite, hieratic, highfalutin, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, holocryptic, holophrastic, homoglot, idiomatic, impersonal, imsonic, inaccurate, incorrect, informal, interlingual, irregular, laconic, lexical, lexicologic, lexiphanic, lingual, linguished, linguistic, literal, literary, literose, logofascinated, macaronic, monepic, monoglot, multilingual, neologic, neological, nominal, nonstandard, notorious, ornate, paradigmatic, paronomastic, paronymous, pauciloquent, periphrastic, phatic, phylacteric, pleonastic, polyglot, polysemous, polysynthetic, preterpluperfect, properispomenon, proverbial, regular, rhematic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sonorous, standard, substandard, suppletive, synchronic, syntactic, syntagmatic, synthetic, tautegorical, titular, togated, tralatitious, ungrammatical, verbal, vernacular, volitive, vulgar
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-nouns
language; phraseology [more]; speech [more]; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect [more]., confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime (signs) [more]; onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmitation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy., lexicology, philogy, glossology, glottology; linguistics, chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar., literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship (scholar) [more].
-verbs
express by words [more].
-adjectives
lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.
-phrases
"syllables govern the world" [Selden].
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| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, patois, patter, pronunciation, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary, localism, provincialism, regionalism |
| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
| Synonyms: | delivery, elocution, eloquence, expression, fluency, gift of gab*, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbiage, vocabulary, wording, command of language, enunciation, phrasing, verbalism, wordage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of word meanings |
| Synonyms: | encyclopedia, glossary, language, lexicon, palaver, reference, terminology, vocabulary, concordance, cyclopedia, promptory |
| Main Entry: | document |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | archive, certificate, credentials, deed, diary, evidence, form, instrument, language, paper, record, report, script, testimony, token, pages |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | idiom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of speaking, turn of phrase |
| Synonyms: | argot, colloquialism, dialect, expression, idiosyncrasy, jargon, language, lingo*, locution, parlance, patois, phrase, style, talk, tongue, usage, vernacular, word, localism, provincialism, set phrase, street talk, vernacularism |
| Antonyms: | standard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lingo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialect spoken by a group |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, patois, patter, slang, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | locution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | phrasing |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, dialect, diction, expression, inflection, language, phraseology |
| Main Entry: | parlance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiom |
| Synonyms: | argot, colloquialism, dialect, diction, expression, idiosyncrasy, jargon, language, lingo*, locution, patois, phrase, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, localism, provincialism, set phrase, street talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terminology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wording |
| Synonyms: | diction, jargon, language, lingo, locution, nomenclature, phraseology, vocabulary, words, choice of words, onomastics, phrasing, turn of phrase, wordage |
| Main Entry: | vernacular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | native language |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lingo*, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, speech, tongue, jive talk, lingua franca, native tongue, street talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wording |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way of expressing a thought |
| Synonyms: | diction, language, locution, manner, mode, parlance, phraseology, style, terminology, words, choice of words, phrasing, turn of phrase, wordage |
| Main Entry: | liberal arts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general knowledge studies |
| Synonyms: | history, language, literature, mathematics, philosophy, science, general education, liberal studies, trivium and quadrivium |
| Main Entry: | expression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbalization |
| Synonyms: | announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, execution, explanation, exposition, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, pronouncement, remark, rendition, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, utterance, vent, voice, word, writ, asseveration, choice of words, enunciation, formulation, phrasing, set phrase, turn of phrase, voicing |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discussion, double talk, elocution, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue, palaver, parlance, prattle, pronunciation, prose, speaking, spiel, tone, tongue, utterance, vernacular, voice, doublespeak, enunciation, expressing, native tongue, oral communication, verbalization, vocal expression, vocalization, vocalizing, voicing |
| Antonyms: | listening, quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | term |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description of a concept |
| Synonyms: | appellation, article, caption, denomination, designation, expression, head, indication, language, locution, moniker*, name, nomenclature, phrase, style, terminology, title, word, vocable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | argot, dialect, diction, idiom, language, lingo, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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