| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, articulation, brogue, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, doublespeak, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, lingua franca, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, verbalization, vernacular, vocabulary, vocalization, voice, word, wording |
| 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 |
| 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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| Concept: | Language. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Language Generally |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect., confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime (signs); 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).
-verbs
-adjectives
lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.
-phrases
"syllables govern the world" [Selden].
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| 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, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
Synonyms: |
command of language, delivery, elocution, eloquence, enunciation, expression, fluency, gift of gab, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording |
| Main Entry: | dictionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of word meanings |
Synonyms: |
concordance, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, glossary, language, lexicon, palaver, promptory, reference, terminology, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | document |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
Synonyms: |
archive, certificate, credentials, deed, diary, evidence, form, instrument, language, pages, paper, record, report, script, testimony, token |
Antonyms: |
speech |
| Main Entry: | expression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbalization |
Synonyms: |
announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, asseveration, choice of words, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, enunciation, execution, explanation, exposition, formulation, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronouncement, remark, rendition, set phrase, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, turn of phrase, utterance, vent, voice, voicing, word, writ |